The use of children for political purposes is not new. In the last century, it was used by demagogues such as Chairman Mao to launch his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1964, in which an estimated million Chinese people were killed, and earlier by Adolf Hitler, who used the Hitler Youth to terrorise his enemies, and then to provide the pawns for his wars, which culminated in Germany’s defeat in World War II.
Greta Thunberg: Passionate but wrong.
The ploy is now being…
