Xi Van Fleet - Episode 147

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

"Chinese by birth; American by choice, survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution, defender of Liberty." -Xi Van Fleet.

Xi devotes her time warning about the parallels between Mao's Cultural Revolution in China and what's unfolding in America today. Her book "Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning" is available now.

https://www.amazon.com/Maos-America-Survivors-Van-Fleet-ebook/dp/B0BWY3JV76

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0:00.0	Marxism and communism will always be appealing to a lot of people because it gave you this
0:07.6	utopia vision that everything will be fixed that the world is full of oppression and full of
0:16.3	exploitation and we have something else that can fix the problem. But I think just
0:22.1	forget about economics or culture whatever the best way to
0:26.4	understand communism and Marxism is it is all about power it is about totalitarianism.
0:35.0	Let's go.
0:36.0	Let's go.
0:37.0	Welcome to Citizen, we've got a special guest today, author and communism survivor.
0:50.0	Is it Z Van Fleet? Is it Z? It's always Z, right?
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	She? With like CHI sound in American?
0:58.0	It's like a pronoun, yeah, pronoun.
1:00.0	My pronoun.
1:02.0	We are just terrible.
1:04.0	English is the most difficult language to translate real languages into, to be honest.
1:08.0	No, no, actually English is good.
1:10.0	You think so?
1:11.0	Yes.
1:12.0	Once you try Chinese, you will agree with me. Well which Chinese are we talking about
1:16.1	Cantones or Mandarin or like simplified? Okay. Mandarin. Okay. Well, we're not here to talk about language
1:22.1	Although it probably will come up at some point.
1:25.0	We'll talk about communism.
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