Last time it was when we released ‘The CIA’s Shining Path’, this time it’s because they took issue with ProleWiki’s Bordiga page lmao
that Bordiga page doing a lot of work with just two little sentences, they hate it so much lol
Last time it was when we released ‘The CIA’s Shining Path’, this time it’s because they took issue with ProleWiki’s Bordiga page lmao
that Bordiga page doing a lot of work with just two little sentences, they hate it so much lol
Which one anyway?
There was this one by Drew Smith, a foreign professor who decided to settle in China, called the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” podcast and in a nutshell, he said it was, in a nutshell:
A mixed bag of good and bad in terms of judgement,
A kerfufle between pseudo-anarcho ultra-lefts, lefts, and right factions of the Communist party…
From what I’ve heard: I guess some rural and urban areas developed not only politically but materially, like Xi’an, where Drew lives, but some turned into out-right street battles where guns and artillery were even used in the ‘arm the Left’ campaign…
Weird shit ranged from worshipping Mao like that of a God to forcing a professor to chug ink and kick him in the stomach to vomit, for having the wrong ideas… (which Mao wouldn’t have all approved, or just brushed off)
Some seizures of power were genuine, some of them were just self-coups (autogolpes) by rightist factions
It had interviews with some Chinese and foreign people who either personally experienced it, studied it academically, or both… so I don’t think this podcast is necessarily an ego-boosting ultra project…
The name sounds familiar, but I don’t remember much beyond very black and white depictions of the CR, whitewashing any negative events, I think I might’ve listened to the first episode of Drew Smith’s podcast, but his isn’t the one I’m remembering and I think I may have mixed up an anecdote he told with something else, which was full “hero worship” and was just talking about Mao’s “greatness” instead of discussing him, I’ll see if I can’t find it again.