参议员卢比奥： 没有什么比焚书这种老派的做法更能说明什么是专制独裁。

参议员卢比奥： 没有什么比焚书这种老派的做法更能说明什么是专制独裁。
【转推华盛顿邮报文章：在中国，图书馆官员焚烧了背离中国共产党理念的书】

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio


Nothing says authoritarian like a good old fashioned book burning. 


https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1204206279666868227

China’s library officials are burning books that diverge from Communist Party ideology

BEIJING — Library officials in northwest China recently hoped to demonstrate their ideological fervor and loyalty to the Communist Party by purging politically incorrect books and religious materials in emphatic fashion: They burned them.

Then they uploaded a report — and a photo — to showcase their work.

The book-burning incident, with all its dark historical precedents from this country and Nazi-era Germany, has heightened alarm at a time when Chinese intellectuals see their society tipping further into authoritarianism.


The incident attracted widespread attention Sunday after Chinese social media users noticed a report on the Library Society of China’s website from a library in Zhenyuan county. The library declared it had removed “illegal publications, religious publications and deviant papers and books, picture books and photographs” in an effort to “fully exert the library’s role in broadcasting mainstream ideology.”