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sources on the opium eradication during Mao's rule. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dear comrades,

I remember reading that after the Liberation of China by the communist party, the main cities had a problem with dead bodies in the streets due to opium overdoses. That every morning they had to clean an enormous amount of dead bodies.

However I can't find anything on it anymore. Can someone help a comrade out?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/347925/#:~:text=The%20People's%20Republic%20of%20China%20dealt%20with%20addiction%20as%20a,Large%20opium%20distributors%20were%20imprisoned.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/cemot_0764-9878_2001_num_32_1_1607

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2092&context=hon_thesis

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Grateful comrade!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that from Michael Parenti's Blackshirts et Reds? About Shanghai

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I have the book, I'll reread it. Thx comrade!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Something something 20% of Shanghai's population were drug addicts, and every night, people who died from the structural violence of war (war-caused virus, wounds, etc) were swept away in the tons by cleaners...

Yeah, I remember that!