Please also see http://awaywithallpests.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-far-indian-author-arundhai-roy-has.html
Just as the oppressed are brutally suppressed by the ruling classes, the heroes of the oppressed people are attacked in all possible ways. This explains all the lies and distortions targeting achievements of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.Arundhati partly falls prey to this propaganda campaign of the rulers. Comments from Democracy and class struggle are also relevant in this context:
Democracy and Class Struggle does not agree with all the views expressed in this interview about Maoism, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution but we know which side of the Peoples Struggle in India that Arundhati Roy is on.
Her criticism is that of a friend and not an enemy.
Check out the following books by Mobo Gao and Minqi Li for an alternative view to anti - Mao History.
