kevin rudd
Get Your Mao On (IV): Criticism and Self-Criticism
This is a short one that’s been a few days coming.
Kevin Rudd cussed.
KEVIN Rudd has had another expletive-riddled brain explosion - this time directed at Labor’s faction bosses, including three women MPs.
The outburst, which left even the hardened ALP operatives who witnessed it shocked, occurred two Mondays ago.
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According to sources Mr Rudd said: “I don’t care what you f***ers think!”
He then went on, singling out Senator Feeney declaring: “You can get f***ed”. Before asking in regard to the printing allowance issue: “Don’t you f***ing understand?”
Sources said this was only a part of what was a much more detailed expletive-riddled verbal attack on the faction leaders.
Chairman Mao schooled.
…some comrades ignore the major issues and confine their attention to minor points when they make their criticism. They do not understand that the main task of criticism is to point out political and organizational mistakes. As to personal shortcomings, unless they are related to political and organizational mistakes, there is no need to be overcritical or the comrades concerned will be at a loss as to what to do. Moreover, once such criticism develops, there is the great danger that within the Party attention will be concentrated exclusively on minor faults, and everyone will become timid and overcautious and forget the Party’s political tasks.
Emphasis mine, hypocrisy Milne’s.
(Not, of course, that Glenn Milne, whose writings are a cancer on responsible journalism, is my or anyone else’s comrade).