What do you think about the Cultural Revolution? I think it's the most fascinating event in the history of communism...

Oh gosh you're right it's totally wrong for them to stop torturous cultural practices because they did fucked up things too

Learn history mongs

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Mao moved China closer to real communism.
Stalin wasn't bad but he was never the intellectual Mao was. Mao's experiment in decentralized popular mass communism is excellent evidence that communism works. People claim that the cultural revolution was a disaster. They claim China destroyed history. False, numerous archaeological sites such as Mawangdui were discovered and preserved and peasants were educated on how to identify historical relics if they were to come across them in the field. They claim science and learning was destroyed. False, China sent its first space satellite and created high yield hybrid rice. While building schools in rural areas. They claim the economy was a disaster. Yet, growth rates were higher then than in the reform era. Rural areas actually had growth rather than decline as they do now. If you go to rural China you will find it is these people who (according to wealthy Chinese urban elite expatriates and Western scholars who have never been to rural China) are supposedly his victims, who are most supportive of Mao and the cultural revolution and hate the reforms.

Sources:
Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution : science and technology in modern China / edited by Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock.
The battle for China's past : Mao and the Cultural Revolution / Mobo Gao.
The Unknown Cultural Revolution
Life and Change in a Chinese Village / Dongping Han

Do you have a single post where you aren't acting like a downy

Is that Stache supposed to be ironic or

It was genuine, but the results were mixed and Mao's handling of it was arguably opportunistic.

This documentary has a lot of good footage and interviews from that time:
youtube.com/watch?v=6McbfQeIsC4

How students and teachers resolved disputes:
youtube.com/watch?v=jLY9zxF3VoQ

An Interview with a Professor, interesting account of the attempt to abolish the distinction between intellectual and manual labor:
youtube.com/watch?v=Z4tebFU9cxo

Taoist, Confucianist, and Buddhist monks/temples did nothing wrong.

Read William Hinton's Fenshen. In the village he was in, the temple was controlled by landlords that used the temple donations for their loan shark business and other scams. The Catholic church there was even worse, not only doing loans but selling girls out of their orphanage. Chinese culture was already a shell of itself from a 100 years of war and famine, so this is what religious institutions were largely known for at that point.

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The cultural revolution was born from the power struggle in party, the whole movment was about elite politics. Mao used the youth to reassert power in the party, the red guard was mao little toy that he used to kill everything that he percived as an enemy, first in the city, then in the later stages in the country side (the cultural revolution lasted more than 3 years). He went against intellectuals and ex nationalist and people with ties in the west (good in the case of first, bad in the case of the second). People within the party were purged, a lot them were rehabilitated later. How the power struggle within the party was born? From the other retarded move "the great leap forward" he was rightfully blamed for the Famine that occured during that period. Mao had the great idea of a cultural revolution after he saw a play that mao interpreted as an attack on him and support to the defense minister, who was dismissed for pointing out the failures of the Great Leap Forward.
Basically this, plus the relationship with corn boy, mao feared for his power and sendt the red youth to destroy the old four ( ideas, customs, culture, habits). Public humiliation and abuse were used against the enemies of the people and they also detroyed a lot of relics from the old dinasty. The red guard got so out of hand that they had to send the PLA to control them. The young chinese being indoctrinated by the red book and used as soldiers paved the way of the next generation lacking skills and knowledge. China’s economy collapsed because of the politcal instability and was fucked by the situation of no trade, no contact and no recognition by the foreign countries. Mao also criticised economic activities by accusing it as not being the main task, so technicians were dismissed as well as the productivity fell drastically. The china faced the worst economic situation. And there were lots of impacts brought by the Cultural Revolution. Social cost was hight too cultural Revolution led to great social, economic, political and cultural backwardness to China.

And he still fucking failed, because after the cultural revolution deng still took power and reformed everything.
The price was to high and was all for nothing.
Mao was a 10/10 intellectual, was a good teorist, a 10/10 agitprop. But he was one of the worst socialist leaders ever. The only thing worth saving from mao is the guerrillia tatic. Rest should be forgotten

Call me an idiot how much you want, but I've read mao and know history

Also this is clearly ban evasion, but It's not like I give a fuck at this point: People resort to calling me Holla Forums without a clear reason why beside being openly anti american and hating on america antifa, but no substantial reason is given to me besides these two things. People who follow through with the hating is just because they hear other people calling me Holla Forums. Also I'm starting to think that people that really get butthurt about my posts are mostly americans, because this kind of stuff happens only after a certain hour. Seriously, If I took away the flag no one would even reconize my posts. This mob mentality is really just product of my anti americanism, i'm ok with that, I just don't see how being against a certain leader or theorist and pointing out that a certain even wasn't really what people idolize is shit posting.
Fuck this, ban me again. I evaded just to post my explaination.

bump

Taiping Rebellion was better and far crazier

Jesus Christ you are a brainlet…

Something more substantial?
Ok, fuck this I'll move to /marx/

kys, it's worse than Christianity and Islam put together, at least those two have some subversive elements (even though you have to wade through an ocean of shit to get to them). Confucianism is shit all the way down.

worth mentioning that Confucianism is completely feudal & that the notion of keeping silly ritual lends itself really well to corporate heirarchies.