Showing posts with label Cultural Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Revolution. Show all posts

Chomskyans' plea:the flame of political correctness now scourged us

Anyone with a passing knowledge of the Western Left's current eight-pronged map will be familiar with the name of Noam Chomsky, the great master of the Left. As the intellectual elites of the same age are gradually passing, Chomsky, who has spent his life criticizing the bastion of capitalism, the United States, and destroying this mountainous country, finally ushered in the end of America at the age of 91: in 2020, Wuhan pneumonia sent the U.S. economy into shock, and the BLM movement launched the American Cultural Revolution to erase the American history and destroy the foundations of the U.S. nation. As an "eternal opponent of America," Chomsky will of course join the revolutionary current, but also eagers to point the way, as he did during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2003.


The thousands of forgotten innocent victims—the massacre of Shaoyang County, Hunan 1968

I grew up in the cradle of revolution—the province of Hunan and received “red” education since I was little. Everything I saw, everything I heard, made me revere and long for “revolution”. When the Cultural Revolution began, I welcomed it with the pure passion of a child.

That passion lasted until 1968, the year two massacres occurred in succession in Daoxian and Shaoyang of Hunan province. From then on, I came to have my own understanding of the nature of the Cultural Revolution.

Mao Zedong: the Giant Shadow over the Contemporary Politics of China

Written by He Qinglian
(translated by krizcpec)

In recent years, the clouds over China's future is thickening. Whether as an alternative political model for future China or as a historic question that cannot be sidestepped, Mao Zedong and his governing approach is getting more frequently into the view of the public. 

On August 27 this year, over a hundred liberals inside the Communist Party of China and intellectuals attended a seminar marking the 30th anniversary of "The Resolution on certain historical problems of the Party since the founding of the People's Republic" (关于建国以来党的若干历史问题的决议), and again they stated that a correct understanding of the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong is crucial for present politics of  China. 

Perspectives to understanding the historic roles of Mao Zedong
Beijing's reluctance to face the history and its use of various propaganda machine to deliberately magnify the bright side of Mao Zedong's political carrier would result not only in the misunderstanding of Mao among the young generation, but also profound confusion in the political thinking of the Chinese people.