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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
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One of the principal failures of mass mobilization during Cultural Revolution was factional fragmentation which occured irrespective of class background, privilege, or economic interest. Quite often, two factions would contain
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While it's true that Mao was Party Chairman & his cult was widespread at the outset of the Cultural Revolution, the notion that everything depended upon Mao is completely false.
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Andrew Walder makes a pretty good case that the worst violence of the Cultural Revolution was perpetrated by the Military in their bid to stabilize the situation and suppress mass
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In many respects, the GPCR was a failure. It was not a revolution, but a failed revolution - it shook the state to its foundations but did not overturn it.
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