Asad Haider with an excellent article on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. I highly encourage everyone to check it out. I will be writing my thoughts this weekend. https://thepointmag.com/politics/dismissal/

I find Haider's following quote to hit home - "Indeed, once we recognize the emancipatory and egalitarian dimensions of the Cultural Revolution, the problem becomes more difficult, not less." - the mixed character of the GPCR makes it all the more a profoundly difficult riddle.

"An important lesson we should draw... it is not enough to assert its primacy as a social foundation. Rather, the goal must be to situate it within the framework of an emancipatory politics that does not presume the prior existence of fused identities and interests." (Haider)

One final quote from Haider: "The lesson of the Cultural Revolution is that an emancipatory politics is indeed possible, but also fragile and precarious—and under constant threat by the logic of dismissal, which can either prohibit its emergence or propel it into factionalism."