... Important to remember that the PRC government wasn't the agent of the Cultural Revolution. It was a revolt against the government. ...
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... Specifically, it was a revolt against the 'betrayal of the revolution' by a relatively pragmatic administration, ...
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... one that had recoiled in revulsion from the madness of the Great Leap Forward and its multi-megadeath social catastrophe. ...
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... Lysenkoism was out, and so was Mao Zedong. The communist dream was over. So it re-animated as a revenge process. ...
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... Massive, inchoate, grass-roots violence against all deviations from Leftist idealism, promoted by Mao's clique off-stage left. ...
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... To repeat the essential thing, the animating soul of the Cultural Revolution was a busted dream. Hence the violent bitterness flavor. ..
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... Young savages acting as the zombie weapon of a cynical imploded totalitarianism. Same model the West is seeing today. ...
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... Positive aspect: Once a Cultural Revolution is put down, it serves as a lurid lesson in what society needs to define itself against. ...
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... Post Cultural Revolution societies might be the closest thing to sanity that history is able to entertain.
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What lesson did we learn in South Africa. Because it wasn't a cultural revolution, rather a ruthless NWO enforcement.
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SA probably has its Left Singularity to look forward to. (One that will make the Haitian revolution look like an ethnic food stand.)
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