life - Taking on Marxist-Leninist Old Ladies

I mostly try to avoid the theoretical debates on the future of communism, since it is of very little relevance to China nowadays. But I enjoyed very much this entry by the Bingfeng Teahouse about the Ma-Lie-Lao_Tai mentality or the Marxist-Leninist Old Ladies he refers too (and you can find here also links to some of the 'old ladies').

literally, ma-lie-lao-tai means Marxist-Leninist Old Ladies, which refer to those old ladies in 1970s' china who stubbornly stick to an ideologies without any clue how to fit them into the real ánd changing world.

It is part of very many of the misunderstandings of those trying to make sense out of China. The outside world still sticks to the old concepts and rethoric of the past, while China has moved on, although it often forgets some of the old labels that then tend to confuse the outside world.