Cultural Revolution

Was the Cultural Revolution something we as communists should uphold and look to repeat? If so, what were the mistakes made that we should look out for?

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The masses "bombarding the headquarters" and criticizing corrupt and revisionist leadership was extremely good and an improvement compared to Leninist/Stalinist "commandism". Deliberately trying to get rid of reactionary cultural practices was good too. Smashing old stuff doesn't really accomplish anything tho.

The only 'mistake' made was ending it. Typical class traitor Mao sent the army in to suppress authentic workers' movements to keep them from derailing his bureaucratic developmental military state.

Absolutely, grass roots politics exists to put a check on revisionism and corruption in the people's political party. The fall of China to revisionism and the fall of the USSR to social imperialism and later capitalism confirms it.

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Let's remember that the red guards were never united in purpose or tactics, there were plenty of red guard who protested the destruction of historical artifacts.

This, also call me a reactionary for this but it's seriously a crying shame to destroy cultural heritage. The whole killing intellectuals thing is also unjustifiable. The concept of "cultural revolution" isn't a priori bad but if anything of the sort is done again, imo it should be in a more controlled manner. A lot of this was just pure anarchy in the bad sense of the word.

this "anarchy" is the masses doing their own independent social investigation and experiments, it's scary but also necessary so that there's no stagnation or complacency.

Some degree of cultural destruction is necessary in revolutionary times. Remember that Europeans tore down thousands of now barely remembered fuedal statues and buildings during the 1800s.

China didn't have any culture to destroy. Ching Chang chong.

I don't care what your ideology is. You are mankind's enemy.

I hope you're meming.

It's easy to criticize openly oppressive institutions of the bourgeois state like cops and the military, but just imagine how university administrators and maybe half the professors would react to an actual revolution. Same thing with the mainstream press and telecom companies. What would a 21st century cultural revolution look like?

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Rural and suburban retards would kill you all and burn your tranny transforms clinics to the ground

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Maybe, I don't see how you can call this destruction necessary in China's case though, especially if they didn't use the space of those demolished buildings productively

It spiralled way out of control. "Independent social investigation and experiments" isn't something to be encouraged if that includes demolishing heritage and killings, measures against reactionary culture could have been taken in a civilized manner from the government itself

Intellectuals are often (though not always) among the most reactionary members of any society since they often (again, not always) serve a vital role in upholding and reproducing the ideology of that society.

We need to invent brain jars, then.

Cultural Revolution was not a mistake, but it would be a mistake to repeat it.

The Cultural Revolution was China's first and only true purely communist revolution. It's a shame that it failed.

Cultural revolution was a radical attempt to advance to Socialism that logically followed from experience, theory and general opinion of the era. It failed in it's principal purpose, and invalidated some of those opinions and modified experience.

We cannot afford to pretend that it failed "accidentally", it failed systematically, thus some assumptions held around the world back then are disproven.

Cultural Revolution helped China to fully transition from feudalism to capitalism by destroying pre-capitalist cultural practices

I reckon we should have one in Australia. We already have a bit of a working class culture. You had the swagmen roaming the countryside looking for work, strong trade union history, pride in physical work, the idea of cutting down the tall poppy, the Eureka Rebellion where workers stood up to the British Empire, Ned Kelly being the Australian Robin Hood, class struggle between the convicts and the soldiers, etc.

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this, education in a classroom is dumb, bouj, and is designed to look like factory work, which is what needs to be abolished.

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Schools as they currently exist are actually shit and should be abolished.

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Not that good. The idea of low consumption while maintaining a high production output was pretty lunatic. People where forced to hunger the wages got insanely low and all the inparty fighting caused the Country to fell apart and many industries put down work. This resulted in a stagnant development of the productive forces, widespread poverty and bad lifelyhoods while still being encircled by imperialist forces.


While the ‘cultural revolution’ was not a total economic disaster as anti-communists would claim, the economy did stagnate during its most tumultuous years.

Good thing picked up China and saved it from turning capitalist

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Good thing Deng picked up China and saved it from turning Capitalist*

Bombarding the headquarters and a literal second revolution wouldnt have been necessary if the 1949 revolution had established real proletarian democracy to begin with. The entire point of a socialist government is that it represents the people and is controlled by them as directly as possible. If they have to use violence to enforce the interests of the proles or the will of the public then the government isnt socialist. In fact the entire Maoist concept of having a new revolution every time the leadership turns revisionist would be totally unnecessary if they actually supported any kind of real democracy, and not just "democracy but only when party leadership agrees with the decision."

but it's currently capitalist

Read Lenin. Read Bukharin.

Not an argument. Also, you can't find anything in Lenin supporting the retarded idea that modern China is socialist.

Lenin on the first phase of communist society ("socialism"):
>The means of production are no longer the private property of individuals. The means of production belong to the whole of society. Every member of society, performing a certain part of the socially-necessary work, receives a certificate from society to the effect that he has done a certain amount of work. And with this certificate he receives from the public store of consumer goods a corresponding quantity of products. After a deduction is made of the amount of labor which goes to the public fund, every worker, therefore, receives from society as much as he has given to it.

>The first phase of communism, therefore, cannot yet provide justice and equality; differences, and unjust differences, in wealth will still persist, but the exploitation of man by man will have become impossible because it will be impossible to seize the means of production–the factories, machines, land, etc.–and make them private property.

China obviously has private property and exploitation.

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can you quickly direct me to the chapter where they tell me that private property, exploitation, and commodity production are socialism

The means of production, like every other aspect of Chinese society, is controlled by the proletariat through vanguard representation (the CCP).

this really makes me think

When did this happen? Since Deng was openly beyond revisionist when was the CPC (get it fucking right btw) reproletarianise? Or are you saying Deng was in fact an actual marxist?

Deng was a Marxist. After the disasterous cultural revolution Deng realised that the development after years of stagnation of the production forces were necessary to succsesfully move forward to an advanced stage of socialism. To not get crushed by imperialist economally and millitary wise, he started the opening up and reform phase. In those times China NEVER gave up their monopoly on the economy and the control of the CPCh .

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Can you please not smear the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution? The GLF was a resounding success.
Also, the Scientific Outlook on Development is a major part of CPC doctrine today. Does anyone have good sources on the SOD? This is what I could find:
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