The Trump administration's attack on government institutions and academia is being compared by some to China's Cultural Revolution. Here I argue that, in fact, the opposite is going on. Related videos: - Why did Mao really launch the Cultural Revolution? Domestic and International reasons https://youtu.be/ij-EYttmwRU - 'Radical' Communism in China's Cultural Revolution https://youtu.be/jT38E0yPNXc - Response to 1Dime’s China’s Cultural Revolution: Great video (but not quite the ‘Full Story’) https://youtu.be/__kK-3iU4V0 Sources: Fareed’s Take: Trump administration's 'war on colleges', CNN, March 16 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Y1g6QaIJU Melinda Cooper, "Trump's antisocial state," Dissent magazine, March 18 2025 https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/trumps-antisocial-state/ Joel Andreas, Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class, Stanford University Press (2009) Rebecca E. Karl, Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World, Duke University Press (2010) Images: Chairman Mao waving to revolutionary masses, poster, 1966 https://chineseposters.net/posters/c17-971 Donald Trump at a rally, Shutterstock/Photographer Matt Smith Great leader Chairman Mao inspects the Red Guards, poster, 1976 https://chineseposters.net/posters/e37-511 Completely smash the capitalist class and the reactionary line of Liu and Deng!, poster, 1967, https://chineseposters.net/posters/e16-338 Red Guards, 1967 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1967-02_1967%E5%B9%B4%E7%9A%84%E7%BA%A2%E5%8D%AB%E5%85%B5.jpg Wang Guangmei struggle session, Tsinghua University, 1967 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guangmei_cultural_revolution.jpg