Chairman Mao and John McDonnell's Little Red Book - Newsnight

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BBC Newsnight

8 жыл бұрын

After John McDonnell gives Chancellor George Osborne Chairman Mao's little red book we ask comedian Alexei Sayle what it all means. Stephen Smith reports.
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@eoghan.5003
@eoghan.5003 4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it a jab at Osborne's cosy relations with the Chinese establishment, given the selling off of British assets?
@writeangles6042
@writeangles6042 3 жыл бұрын
No.
@chindit6784
@chindit6784 3 жыл бұрын
Yes but the average Conservative and media will focus on whatever way they can style it to their advantage rather than the substance of the conservatives selling of British assets to the ccp
@paulmahon7703
@paulmahon7703 8 жыл бұрын
the old bamboo and did I hear kung fu fighting? is racism not a thing when the victims are east Asian?
@williammarshalknight1846
@williammarshalknight1846 5 жыл бұрын
Paul Mahon no starving 100 million is little bit more serious you clown shoes
@sailoroftheinternet3290
@sailoroftheinternet3290 4 жыл бұрын
Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. How is playing kung fu fighting a statement of white superiority/ Asian inferiority?
@leekman4044
@leekman4044 4 жыл бұрын
More like ethnic and national stereotypes
@jbagger331
@jbagger331 4 жыл бұрын
Diane Abbott: Chairman Mao "on balance did more good than harm"
@ElendilAndAragorn
@ElendilAndAragorn 7 жыл бұрын
all tories are paper tigers
@hizzyvoltaire3764
@hizzyvoltaire3764 5 жыл бұрын
I think all Corbyn supporters are idiots
@DialecticalMaterialismRocks
@DialecticalMaterialismRocks 4 жыл бұрын
@@hizzyvoltaire3764 a marxist agrees. We need the CPGB-ML
@kimcarrier9834
@kimcarrier9834 5 жыл бұрын
I wonder why people must focus on the book but not if the sentence is correct.
@kimcarrier9834
@kimcarrier9834 5 жыл бұрын
@@williammarshalknight1846 You can find it in DM or Kaufland.
@hizzyvoltaire3764
@hizzyvoltaire3764 5 жыл бұрын
Because the book was written by Mao who murdered 78 million people you idiot! By your logic should we hunger for words in Mein Kampf!
@SinnedNogara
@SinnedNogara 4 жыл бұрын
@@hizzyvoltaire3764 From 1949 to 1978 China's population increased by 77.7% Between 1952 and 1975 China's industry more than doubled in size. So which is it?
@A_29886
@A_29886 4 жыл бұрын
@@SinnedNogara there can be population growth *and* mass genocide at the same time... Also the people's Republic of china had invaded countries like Tibet and Taiwan, and by the borders of their own maps, grown to encompass areas of the nationalist government hence growing their population. And the reason their industry doubled was because of the ccp's ever lowering laws on cheap labour and their ever lowering human rights for the workplace.
@benjaminheim735
@benjaminheim735 4 жыл бұрын
@@A_29886 lol china "invaded" taiwan, that is a new one. As far as I know, the nationalists were the ones who invaded taiwan when they ran from an army of peasants like little cowards. Mao did more good for china than any other historical figure in the last 500 years. Not the least of it being reunifying the disparate fiefdoms into a state, ending feudalism, doubling life expectancy, increasing education funding by 1000%, 6.8 percent yearly economic growth, ending opium addiction, electrification, drastically reducing illiteracy, elevating women, introducing birth control and many more. And what are you even talking about with the cheap labor. Are you confused? That all happened well after Mao died. When Mao was in power often times workers themselves controlled their pay through workers brigades and councils. If a party boss did try to rip off the workers, they could find themselves on the wrong side of a struggle session very quickly. If you want to learn about Mao, go to China and ask older people about him. The western popular conception of him is entirely skewed.
@BitOfUltraviolence
@BitOfUltraviolence 6 жыл бұрын
He should not be allowed to lay hands on the red book.
@jakeydelasbebs8800
@jakeydelasbebs8800 6 жыл бұрын
Maybe this is because I'm an American and I have to deal with President Orange Julius, but literally how is this a gaffe? I thought it was quite clever
@HBKnowItAll
@HBKnowItAll 4 жыл бұрын
Modern Era: "To Play Too Many Games Is Harmful." 1960s China: "To Read Too Many Books Is Harmful."
@mackwong350
@mackwong350 5 жыл бұрын
Chairman McDonnell did a great job there haha
@hizzyvoltaire3764
@hizzyvoltaire3764 5 жыл бұрын
Unlike his time when McDonnell did the finances of the Greater London Council in 1982 and was sacked by his friend because of his incompetence in handling the financial affairs of the GLC. And the ironically Corbyn made him his shadow chancellor!
@michael6255
@michael6255 4 жыл бұрын
Tom Watsons face when he came out with that book can cure depression. Chukka Ummuna - “I wasn’t there”
@engineeringvision9507
@engineeringvision9507 2 жыл бұрын
Same with Chris Bryant. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, watch his eye contact with one of the Conservatives opposite him.
@sewellpercy3179
@sewellpercy3179 5 жыл бұрын
I think he was making an ironic point about selling assets to China, so one of his better moments. Parliament is pathetic though.
@bluesrocker91
@bluesrocker91 5 жыл бұрын
It's an odd quote to use if that was the intention. It sounded more like he was suggesting Osborne could learn something from Chinese communism.
@benjaminheim735
@benjaminheim735 4 жыл бұрын
@Paulo Chan mao is completely and categorically different than Hitler. You must be politically illiterate if you are unable to see that
@VasSagar
@VasSagar 8 жыл бұрын
bring in middle of the road, status quo tool Chuku and ask his opinion of McDonnell. who takes BBC seriously?.. ..
@remymills9972
@remymills9972 4 жыл бұрын
A bag of weed a bag of weed everything is better with a bag of weed
@robbiekop7
@robbiekop7 4 жыл бұрын
Ali G for Prime Minister 😁
@R3586
@R3586 3 жыл бұрын
Tom Watson's face @0:30 is like ohhhhh shit, lol.
@JonLynnHarvey
@JonLynnHarvey 3 жыл бұрын
The opening quote is from lao tzu not Mao
@mikeyao1
@mikeyao1 8 жыл бұрын
It's the way to control people and works.
@DialecticalMaterialismRocks
@DialecticalMaterialismRocks 4 жыл бұрын
Who the fuck takes "the old bamboo", when there's so many good songs like sailing depends on the helsman? Or red sun in the sky?
@shacklock01
@shacklock01 8 жыл бұрын
Well I like how they got someone on educated enough to acknowledge the continuing importance of Marxist social and historical theory.
@williammarshalknight1846
@williammarshalknight1846 5 жыл бұрын
The Shacks says the communist on his iPhone you tit
@georgemurray8250
@georgemurray8250 5 жыл бұрын
But the theory is hysterical
@82892869hi
@82892869hi 3 жыл бұрын
@@williammarshalknight1846 you think communism is useful to understand? Iphone benezuela 100 billion dead.
@R3586
@R3586 3 жыл бұрын
Education isn't a sign of intelligence
@82892869hi
@82892869hi 3 жыл бұрын
@@R3586 lmao, I’m guessing you’re a conservative
@rjill7000
@rjill7000 4 жыл бұрын
tfw Mao is better than you at economic planning
@tharsisharmonia9316
@tharsisharmonia9316 3 жыл бұрын
And they went on two years later to gain the biggest increase in labour's vote share since 1945.
@storm21410
@storm21410 3 ай бұрын
And they went 2 years after that to the worst Labour defeat for 80 years...
@meandmymouth
@meandmymouth 8 жыл бұрын
"Selling off the family silver" ? Not only was this a gaff and not a joke but he had to explain what he was referring to AFTERWARDS on numerous TV appearances. He also gave his opponents an open goal when they picked up on other dubious ideological quotes in that same little red book. How much more incompetent can you get ?
@cjin3154
@cjin3154 8 жыл бұрын
As a Chinese , I literally laughed out loud
@cjin3154
@cjin3154 8 жыл бұрын
I don't and I have a pet. I know many ppl in China do. This is sad.
@BBCNewsnightonline
@BBCNewsnightonline 8 жыл бұрын
+C Jin Glad you enjoyed the piece!
@JiayiLi1995
@JiayiLi1995 8 жыл бұрын
+Dave Long Your media made up it.
@communistmedia564
@communistmedia564 8 жыл бұрын
+C Jin what by laughing at chairman mao who saved your country?
@hongeast5174
@hongeast5174 8 жыл бұрын
I understand You are sad to be a Chinese. You hate any Chinese connections of you.
@IHateFriday100
@IHateFriday100 8 жыл бұрын
Gaff, really well done john
@CubeduBorg
@CubeduBorg 4 жыл бұрын
Note how Corbyn is not amused in the slightest. He sleeps with it under his pillow.
@nightmuffin937
@nightmuffin937 2 ай бұрын
McDonnell is BASED
@Normski89
@Normski89 4 жыл бұрын
Chuka got chucked
@Caff68
@Caff68 5 жыл бұрын
This is quite a disturbing clip, really...
@budimuhammad3531
@budimuhammad3531 5 жыл бұрын
In the begining of video i found an amazing disney musical dance. Movie or cartoob pls.
@mikecarone7320
@mikecarone7320 5 жыл бұрын
In 1964 Moa had the Atomic bomb
@robbiekop7
@robbiekop7 4 жыл бұрын
His dentures were made out of wood 😳
@edmund184
@edmund184 7 жыл бұрын
2:20 "I condemn all that" Can you imagine somebody saying that about 9/11? Politics is getting better and better all the time.
@edmund184
@edmund184 7 жыл бұрын
that'll show the Chairman.
@theleninist4272
@theleninist4272 6 жыл бұрын
It was a joke that back fired , nothing more.
@ApolloLakePictures
@ApolloLakePictures 3 жыл бұрын
and they expected to get elected 😂 nice one john I'm glad Starmer's tearing down everything you built
@adamh1220
@adamh1220 8 жыл бұрын
John McDonnell is right
@williammarshalknight1846
@williammarshalknight1846 5 жыл бұрын
Adam H are you on glue
@ryanOGab
@ryanOGab 3 ай бұрын
20 million ah try 70 million.,
@armchairrevolutionary8093
@armchairrevolutionary8093 6 жыл бұрын
Everybody should read about what Mao had to say. Very intelligent man who made grave errors in his handling of the agricultural sector on China.
@jackmaitland8496
@jackmaitland8496 2 жыл бұрын
Not really. It doesn't take much intelligence to recognise that Lysenkoism was wrong, it had already been denounced by the USSR. Plus, he still exported grain and denied foreign aid even when he knew what was happening. He was just entirely callous.
@JohnKobaRuddy
@JohnKobaRuddy 6 жыл бұрын
Glory to Mao
@sailoroftheinternet3290
@sailoroftheinternet3290 4 жыл бұрын
YAY! Genocide!
@sailoroftheinternet3290
@sailoroftheinternet3290 4 жыл бұрын
@Tong Su just because someone else does it doesn't make it right. The British empire however were also the people to end slavery and denounce one of the biggest and most abhorrent genocides known to man. Dont remember moa doing any of that.
@user-lh7mp4jg4o
@user-lh7mp4jg4o 3 жыл бұрын
LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN MAO
@tobyanderson5328
@tobyanderson5328 3 жыл бұрын
He's been dead for years you pillock
@lrt_unimog8316
@lrt_unimog8316 7 жыл бұрын
3:23 Chou En-lai
@giannb5145
@giannb5145 5 жыл бұрын
Tories are angry at Mao,because he ended the rapacious British Empire's economic subjugation of China,and then became an icon for people all over Asia, Africa and Latin America, from Cambodia to Peru.
@sailoroftheinternet3290
@sailoroftheinternet3290 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's why hong kong are resisting with everything they have against china, they've tasted freedom and don't want to lose that
@signorgeneralegeorgjikonst5621
@signorgeneralegeorgjikonst5621 7 жыл бұрын
glory to Mao anyway
@awkwardsean5141
@awkwardsean5141 8 жыл бұрын
I really don't see what's wrong in believing in classlessness and equality. Why wouldn't any want that? o.O
@somedude6587
@somedude6587 8 жыл бұрын
The media's controlled by the people on top of the class system and uses its influence to make the public see it as bad.
@williammarshalknight1846
@williammarshalknight1846 5 жыл бұрын
Joe Schmo it's not a bad thing . But communism is not the answer
@jackfitzpatrick8173
@jackfitzpatrick8173 2 жыл бұрын
Ask the East Germans that. At least the ones who didn't die trying to escape. Then ask the North Koreans. You might be able to find a couple of dozen who weren't killed while escaping.
@babycharliebrown
@babycharliebrown 6 жыл бұрын
He's an embarrassment to all in his party. You can see them cringing! Lol
@vicchung
@vicchung 6 жыл бұрын
He's an embarrassment because the Labour Party is not a workers' party.
@bitcoincryptofreedom3652
@bitcoincryptofreedom3652 4 жыл бұрын
@@vicchung not anymore :(
@joelcoool
@joelcoool 2 жыл бұрын
that's disgraced traitor and gambling industry adviser Tom Watson cringing behind John there, in case that gives some perspective
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