My Editorial

Marvin Tao

12/12/66

Mao Zedong’s Call for Red Guards (A Despicable Idea)

Chairman Mao, the Communist Ruler of China called the creation of Red Guards in which will range form 15 to 20 years old. At the massive meeting at Tiananmen Square this past fall, Mao ordered all schools to be closed down and bought young scholars to be “re-educated” by the peasants in the countryside. By Mao doing this, he is not gaining anything. Instead of letting those young scholars go to school on a regular basis from them to have a bright future when they grow up. By creating Red Guards to destroy China’s old cultures is awful for China already, but it is even more dreadful to prevent kids from learning and do nonsense things instead.

    In the mission of the Red Guards, Mao is ordering all the Red Guards to eliminate all bourgeois, xenophile, black class people and anybody who is thought to be disgracing the Communist Party. They also have to destroy the Four Olds, which are Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Customs. That includes destroying old artifacts, religious objects such as holy writings, scared objects and as well as the temple itself. Sabotaging all these great artifacts and objects of China is like destroying the country itself, since abolishing all these is taking away China’s fame and great feats. What they are wrecking is beautiful art or rare objects that we don’t have the wisdom to make anymore. Mao also told the Red Guards that they could break into people’s houses if they are accused of having bourgeois objects or being a bourgeois to destroy or arrest them. Even if you are caught listening to foreign radio is forbidden! This is totally violates people privacy because it is unlawful to break into anybody’s house before asking for their permission first.

Some people might say that starting new China will help us get rid of bad habits such as foot binding and rule of an emperor. Also to get new ideas is an excellent thing to do because good ideas mean a brighter future. Unfortunately, this is a horrid idea to do. Even though we can get good ideas from other countries, some of them might refuse. This can led up to war or other catastrophes. Abolishing our old cultures is bad, too. We should preserve our Four Olds so that we can make benefits out of them. We can learn from them and use it now.

Gathering Red Guards to destroy the Four Olds and bourgeois people is a very cruel thing to do. It should cause China to be ashamed of itself because we are destroying our old culture, ideas, habits, and customs, which can be good and useful for the future, too.