Starting now: China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong feat. @judeblanchettehttps://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/chinas-new-red-guards-the-return-radicalism-and-the-rebirth-mao-zedong …
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.@judeblanchette : "We've seen that stability maintenence has always been important to the CCP, especially after 1989. He's not looking to unleash a revolutionary tide."
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Blanchette: " A neo-Maoist is a time marker- a new evolution of individuals with an affinity for China's revolutionary history but have adapted it, and who think the Party has ceded too much to market forces," and finds that Xi fits several of those qualities
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.@judeblanchette : "Theres clearly thresholds for Xi Jinping. On one hand, you have individuals celebrating a leader who is proud of the Red Legacy. On the other hand, Mao is a tricky individual and certain types of Maoism the CCP would see forgotten," i.e. JASIC worker unrest
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Daly: "Who do the neo-Maoists see themselves primarily arguing against? Liberals, mainstream Party members they think have gone wrong, or global liberalism?"
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Blanchette on the political history of neo-Maoism "There was pushback at the beginning of reforms. It was always more volatile, a push-pull cyclical element to it, because reform and liberalization created costs and losers. Some people would see rent seeking ability diminished"
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Neo-Maoists also saw "Mao as a tactical tool to push back against the CCP," and it made them harder to crack down. "Not impossible," according to Blanchette, but enough that Deng, in leadership years, noticed the usage of banners bearing Mao's image.
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.@judeblanchette on personal interactions with neo-Maoists: "Almost to the person they were engaging, soft-spoken, deeply concerned about where China was going," and ideological convictions "came from a place of deep concern"
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