History of ChiCom Cannibalism

Communist Cannibals

The horrors of China’s Cultural Revolution are an urgent warning to us.

It was 1967. America was two years away from landing on the moon and Chinese Communists were eating people. The Communists hadn’t turned cannibal because of hunger, but politics.

Mao’s cultural revolution had already led to brutal lynchings of teachers and principals by the Red Guards unleashed by the Communist regime to purge all ideological deviation, but beating political opponents to death wasn’t enough for the radical mobs in the Guangxi region.

By the end of the cultural revolution, as many as 20,000 Communists had eaten human flesh.

While the four hundred people cannibalized were a relatively small number compared to the estimated three million killed in the cultural revolution, and the 100,000 or so killed for ideological reasons without being eaten by Communists in the Guangxi region, they serve as a reminder of the depths of horror and evil that the Communist movement had descended to.

And to which it may end up returning once again.

Cannibalism was only one of the atrocities of the cultural revolution which included “beheading, beating, live burial, stoning, drowning, boiling, group slaughters, disemboweling, digging out hearts, livers, genitals, slicing off flesh, blowing up with dynamite and more”.

Communist officials organized cannibal orgies as a test of political loyalty. Friends, associates and close family members had to eat the flesh of dissidents to prove their ideological allegiance.

The orgies soon gave way to a banality of evil best described in one of the passages in Zheng Yi’s definitive book ‘Scarlet Memorial’ about the culture war cannibalism. “Strolling down the street, the director of the local Bureau of Commerce carried a human leg on his shoulder, which he was taking home to boil and consume. On the leg there still hung a piece of a man’s trouser.”

The killings began with struggle sessions, the victims, whether they were doctors, teachers or peasants, men and women who had once had money, visited foreign countries or stood in the way of Mao’s agenda, were paraded up and down the streets, berated and humiliated, and then beaten to death by waiting mobs. But eventually just beating them to death was not enough.

Like their originators in the French Revolution, the Communist found new cruelties. They killed parents in front of children. They buried their victims alive. They mutilated them. And ate them.

What began as mob violence where Red Guard “students killed their principals in the school courtyard and then cooked and ate the bodies to celebrate a triumph over ‘counterrevolutionaries'”, became formalized as government cafeterias displayed “bodies dangling on meat hooks” and “served human flesh to employees.”

A geography teacher had his heart and liver cut out. The “flesh was cooked in three places: One was the school kitchen… when the flesh was cooked, seven or eight students consumed it together.”

In one typical incident, a self-criticism rally (a struggle session) was held during which the targets had to get up on stage while they were berated and denounced. During the cultural revolution, such ‘rallies’ often ended in murder, but what happened next was worse. Instead of just killing them, the bodies of the dead “were stripped of flesh, which was taken back to the front of the brigade office to be boiled in two big pots. Twenty or thirty people participated in the cannibalism. Right out in the open, they boiled human flesh in front of the local government offices.”

The horrors were all part of a calculated plan. The Communist leaders assigned quotas to the Red Guards for how many people had to be killed. Mobs were encouraged to beat people to death because then the “masses can be educated in a relatively more efficient way.” The order was that after three days “one-fourth of the social dregs must be bludgeoned to death.”

“Model demonstrations of killing” were held before ‘communes’ were turned loose to kill people on their own. Thousands of people were being killed with fists and stones across the region in the name of the Communist Party. Entire families, men, women and children, even babies, were brutally killed by the Cultural Revolution’s cadres. Some were raped and tortured.

Girls had been encouraged to take the lead in the Cultural Revolution from the beginning. During the mass killings they were encouraged, “to do the killing and later they would address them as ‘sister nine’ or ‘sister ten’ based on the number of people they had killed.”

Sons begged for the lives of their mothers. Mothers begged for the lives of their children. “Please leave me one.” Ropes were put around the necks of children and they were dragged to their deaths through the dust for the greater glory of the Communist cause.

A mother trying to hide the truth from her little boy until the end dressed him in his best clothes, telling him that his “‘uncles’ were coming to take him to grandma’s.”

The convergence of Communism and Chinese folk medicine with its emphasis on the value of particular organs led to mobs harvesting and eating human hearts and livers for their medicinal value. Peasants recruited into the Communist mobs believed that eating human hearts would help them live longer. While some were forced to eat body parts, others eagerly joined in.

“There are many varieties of cannibalism and among them are these: killing someone and making a late dinner of it, slicing off the meat and having a big party, dividing up the flesh so each person takes a large chunk home to boil, roasting the liver and eating it for its medicinal properties,” a report described.

Among the endless horrors of the Communist mobs was “the practice of cutting out a person’s organs and frying them in oil while the victim was still alive.” A man being castrated pleaded, “let me die first then you can cut it.” The Communist killers however paid no attention to his pleas.

“Party members, cadres, land reform activists and the poor and lower-middle peasants” demanded the death of one particular victim. And then his disemboweling. A report described how one of the killers “extracted the organs, cut them into pieces and laid everything out on a board.”

The killer, who was an old man when he was interviewed for ‘Scarlet Memorial’, described how “the heart was cut into finger-sized slices. People in the crowd struggled to get a piece. The people were so numerous that I didn’t even get a share.”

The Communist machine kept detailed records of all the various atrocities it had committed.

A report described how a teacher heard that “consuming a ‘beauty’s heart’ could cure disease. “He then labeled a beautiful 13-or-14-year-old student of his as a ‘target of dictatorship’ and singled her out for killing.

This term from the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’, the essence of Communism, licensed all killings of those branded as enemies of the people as the revolutionary will of the people.

“After the little girl was done in”, he remained and “cut open the girl’s chest with a duck-beak shaped tool, dug out her heart and took it home to enjoy.” At the time she was killed, the girl had been carrying her baby brother in a sling over her front.”

Much as during the French Revolution, old women would appear with baskets, but in Communist China, they were not there to knit. “Immediately after a victim was killed, the crowd would rush forward. Those at the forefront would get the good pieces of flesh. Those who came later divided up the bones among themselves.”

A female vice chairwoman of the Wuxuan Revolutionary Committee “after engaging in several revolutionary actions, became something of a specialist in consuming male reproductive organs.” The Communist Central Committee became upset at this obscene behavior, but were reassured when “subsequent investigation revealed that her cannibalism had been limited to the flesh and livers so she was allowed to remain in the Party.” The Communist leader in question was notable for her kindness in bringing “two pieces of flesh back home to her mother.”

“Feasts of human flesh” presided over by high-ranking Party members were held at fairs. Livers and hearts were quickly cut out and in cases prepared and cooked on the spot. As the killings continued, the cannibalism took on a professional culinary tone. “The Huangmao Food and Supply Store was among the most prominent sites of cannibalism. A large pot, eight feet in diameter, was used to boil the victims.”

In 1968, the Communist cannibalism finally ended. The Chinese Communist Party at the national level gave the order to end it immediately and a prolonged cover-up began. But the violence had served its larger purpose in Mao’s Cultural Revolution power struggle.

While word of it reached America early on, American leftists refused to believe it. It was not until the publication and translation of ‘Scarlet Memorial’, which was reviewed by the New York Times and the Washington Post in the nineties, that the facts were established.

And then quickly forgotten.

American leftists had been complicit in the horrors of Communist China and the Cultural Revolution. And they still are. Why does this litany of horrors in a far off country matter?

As Gov. Tim Walz’s 30-year relationship with China is scrutinized, it’s worth noting that a news story described how,  “Walz has always been fascinated by Communist China. He remembers from his childhood pictures of Mao Tse-Tung hung in public places and carried in parades.”

While these horrors were taking place, Western intellectuals and journalists returned from Communist China (as they had the USSR and Nazi Germany), and denied that anything terrible was going on.

A few years after the cannibalism, American Communist sympathizers set up the US-China Peoples Friendship Association (USCPFA) to “advance the interests of Communist China and world communism.” And in 2019, Gov. Walz was scheduled to appear at USCPFA’s convention.

That romanticism of Maoism remains. Maoist movements continue to lead the way in what many are calling the contemporary ‘Cultural Revolution’ on college campuses and public life. They play a crucial role in some of the most violent riots calling for the destruction of America.

Americans certain that this litany of horrors in a far-off place could never happen here all too quickly forget the sudden permission structure that licensed the random violence of the BLM riots, the Hamas mobs rampaging through cities and campuses and the vandalism of public places by a long list of radical leftist movements including Occupy Wall Street.

The underlying permission structure for ideological violence, for the dehumanization and targeting of some individuals and groups for political reasons, is just as alive in America.

Past surveys showed that 1 in 5 Ivy League students “expressed some level of acceptance for violence” for stopping campus speeches they didn’t like. Last year’s Buckley Institute survey found that nearly half of students agreed that “physical violence can be justified to prevent that person from espousing their hateful views.” Last year, a FIRE survey found that 1 in 3 students “believe it can be acceptable in at least some circumstances to use violence to stop a campus speech.” The campus numbers are trending toward growing acceptability of political violence.

The cannibalism described in ‘Scarlet Memorial’ is at the farthest and most extreme end of leftist violence, but it is part of a continuum of ideological violence that we are seeing today. It is the final endpoint of the leftist argument that anything is acceptable for the sake of social change.

Political mob violence, once underway, unleashes the worst evils inherent in human nature. That is as true of Communist cannibalism in China as it is true of Black Lives Matter. Convince a mob that it is oppressed and duty bound to do anything to end the oppression and it will do anything.

Anything at all.

The history of the Left, from the French Revolution to the USSR to Cuba, China and Cambodia, testifies to the horrors unleashed by the same ideology that is now taking over America.

And unless we learn from the history of the untold millions killed by the Left, we will repeat it.

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