Posted on 01/12/2021 10:28:36 AM PST by llevrok
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a decade-long period of political and social chaos caused by Mao Zedong’s bid to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist party.
Its bewildering complexity and almost unfathomable brutality was such that to this day historians struggle to make sense of everything that occurred during the period.
However, Mao’s decision to launch the “revolution” in May 1966 is now widely interpreted as an attempt to destroy his enemies by unleashing the people on the party and urging them to purify its ranks. (SNIP)
“Our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road... so as to facilitate the consolidation and development of the socialist system,” one early directive stated.
Frank Dikötter, the author of a new book on the period, says Mao hoped his movement would make China the pinnacle of the socialist universe and turn him into “the man who leads planet Earth into communism.” (SNIP)
A fortnight later, on 1 June, the party’s official mouthpiece newspaper urged the masses to “clear away the evil habits of the old society” by launching an all-out assault on “monsters and demons”.
Chinese students sprung into action, setting up Red Guard divisions in classrooms and campuses across the country. By August 1966 - so-called Red August - the mayhem was in full swing as Mao’s allies urged Red Guards to destroy the “four olds” - old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture.
Schools and universities were closed and churches, shrines, libraries, shops and private homes ransacked or destroyed as the assault on “feudal” traditions began.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Purification is underway here now. Our voices are being silenced. Getting very ugly quick.
Xi is committed to topping Mao’s revolution!
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American students sprung into action, setting up Politically Correct, Social Justice Divisions in classrooms and campuses across the country.
Now there's a thought!
Right-and besides all the deaths and murders, Mao jammed them up behind the 8 ball for 80 years.
They haven’t recovered yet!
How much did Biden learn sitting at the feet of his Chinese masters? Hmmmm?
Everything he knows.
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I wonder, though, who is our Mao? Who’s coordinating the attacks against us? Is it one person or a cabal of tech CEOs talking with each other.
My opinion? Mullah Obama. He's been pulling the liberal puppet strings for the last 4 years.
Want to know more about China’s Cultural Revolution, read the book referenced at the beginning of the article.
The Chairman’s new clothes: Mao and the cultural revolution
https://1lib.us/book/6342231/dcd987
Don't care how high their grades are or the moxie they exude...
You know a tree by it's fruit. The fruit of the Chinese tree is starvation and horror.
Put enough smart interesting nice Chinese together and they'll create a creepy, thuggy totalitarian culture that murders it's own citizens. That's inferior by any and all standard.
Every-time.
It’s nice to be ruled by Xi, I mean Biden.
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