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Democratic Socialists of America: Reaction from a Survivor of Mao's China | Lily Tang Williams

Democratic Socialists of America: Reaction from a Survivor of Mao's China | Lily Tang Williams

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Guest: Lily Tang Williams is the Republican nominee for Congress in New Hampshire's Second District, running in a November rematch against Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander after winning the 2026 primary with 65 percent of the vote. Born in Sichuan province, she was two years old when Mao's Cultural Revolution began and grew up in workers' housing on government food rationing. She studied law at Fudan University in Shanghai, taught there as a part-time faculty member, and left China for graduate school in the United States in 1988. She is a speaker for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a small-business owner, and a mother of three. Key topics: • What the Chinese Communist Party promised before it took power, and what land reform and the people's communes delivered instead• The famine that reached Sichuan, and what starving villagers did to survive• Mao's ten classes, five black and five red, and how families were turned against each other• School under Mao: shut down, reopened six days a week, and a six-year-old kept home a year to babysit her infant brother• The lesson at age seven that taught her never to trust anyone• Banned Taiwanese love songs, red revolutionary songs, and a child who saw Mao's face in the clouds• Mao's death at twelve: "who lied to my generation?"• Three years of study, four boiled eggs a morning, and the national college exam• Choosing law at seventeen to make China a rule-of-law country, and what the law school taught in week two• An American exchange student, a pocket Constitution, and the sentence that changed her life• Religion under communism, and the mother who prayed in secret• Two bosses at a Chinese university: one academic, one political• No blue jeans, no dancing, no hair past the shoulders: college rules in 1981• Lying to the Communist Party boss for permission to leave; "you don't own yourself"• Landing in America with 100 dollars, meeting her husband the first night, and a surgery she hid from her family• Socialist medicine: infected blood, a decade without a diagnosis, and bribing surgeons for a hospital bed• Why she is running for Congress, and the rematch with Maggie Goodlander• Blacklisted by the Chinese Communist Party, eleven years without seeing her family• The Democratic Socialists of America's promises, set against what she lived• How to help get out the vote before Election Day Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open: Lily Tang Williams, a little girl in Mao's Cultural Revolution00:36 — The Surviving Communism series: what is coming in October01:50 — Welcome: Lily Tang Williams, candidate for Congress in New Hampshire03:58 — Two years old when the Cultural Revolution began; twelve when Mao died04:35 — Eight families, one outdoor restroom, one water faucet05:32 — "We supposed to be the ruling class": the 5 AM ration line06:42 — What communism promised: everything free, land for the peasants07:27 — Land reform and the people's communes: "promise not kept"08:37 — The famine: 40 to 60 million; Sichuan had never starved before09:46 — What starving villagers traded to survive10:24 — Mao's ten classes: five black, five red11:38 — Her grandmother's year of struggle sessions13:05 — School under Mao: shut down, reopened six days a week14:34 — Six years old, kept home a year to babysit her infant brother16:19 — Too confident for the Young Pioneers: the lesson that ended trust18:02 — Music, radio and "spiritual pollution": the banned Taiwanese songs19:59 — "I saw his face behind the clouds": a 100 percent brainwashed child20:28 — Mao dies: "who lied to my generation?"21:30 — Three years of study, four boiled eggs, and the national exam24:07 — Choosing law at seventeen to make China a rule-of-law country26:00 — Two weeks into law school: law as a tool of the ruling class27:21 — An American exchange student and a pocket Constitution29:14 — "Your rights come from God, not from your government"31:10 — Carry a Constitution: Jenny Beth Martin on why it matters here too31:49 — Religion shut down; her mother's private prayers33:30 — Faculty at Fudan, two bosses: academic and political35:02 — Applying to American graduate schools: TOEFL, GRE, a sponsor35:34 — No jeans, no dancing, no hair past the shoulders37:10 — Hu Yaobang, disco and coffee shops: a short liberation38:46 — "Climb the ladder, retire and die": deciding to leave39:45 — Lying to the party boss for permission; "you don't own yourself"40:41 — Landing in America with 100 dollars and a 1,200 dollar debt41:26 — Meeting her husband the first night; the RA job that kept her here42:37 — A lump, a surgery, and a secret kept from China43:57 — Health care in China: infected blood and her mother's dementia46:21 — Bribing surgeons for a hospital bed46:49 — Jenny Beth Martin: what "free health care for everyone" looks like47:33 — "How do you sue the government?" Who should decide your care49:50 — Why she ...
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