Hello friends,
My party has been critically studying the socialist superstructure with emphasis in the USSR for a while now. It has also set as it's goal, among others, in our last Congress the examination of the Chinese Revolution as whole, of the socialist development and of the eventual restoration of capitalism. I think I can contribute a lot by taking on a study of the historicio-philosophical Cultural Revolution and it's contradictions on occasion of the 60th and 50th anniversary of it's beggining and end respectivly. I have some, but I need more bibliography. Both maoist and ctirical sources towards the cultural revolution (but obviously from a marxist pov and not bourgeois propaganda) are welcome!
Thanks in advance!
>>2841979The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou.
>The establishment of worker communes based on the Paris Commune model posed a direct existential threat to the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly on power. Mao Zedong recognized that true autonomous worker administration rendered the vanguard party obsolete and compromised the central state apparatus. The central leadership initiated a systematic suppression campaign to neutralize this threat. The state deployed the People's Liberation Army to physically dismantle the communes. The military occupied factories, municipal buildings, and infrastructure to strip the worker factions of their administrative and economic control. The central government ordered the immediate cessation of armed clashes between rival commune factions. It used military force to disarm radical worker groups and enforce order. The central leadership officially dissolved the commune structure and mandated its replacement with Revolutionary Committees. These new tripartite governing bodies forcefully integrated military officers, vetted mass representatives, and rehabilitated party cadres. This structure permanently neutralized worker autonomy and transferred absolute power back to the state and the military.
Why are marxists like this?
>>2843087>The Cultural Revolution was actually a ploy to destroy worker's communesGotta hand it to you, that's a new one. Too bad it's a bald-faced lie though.
>>2841979>>2842746I am a Marxist-Leninist and I respect the Cultural Revolution and defend it against the narrative of capitalists and revisionists who invent excuses to justify class conciliation.
From what I know, the book "The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village" by Dongping Han is a better book that writes about the era than Gao Mobo.
I searched and I think I found a link to this text available on the internet if you want to read it:
http://www.socialiststories.com/en/writers/Han-Dongping/The-Unknown-Cultural-Revolution-Dongping-Han.pdf >>2842746Truth nuke.
If someone is in mostly ignorance (non-pejorative) of a thing they'd always be better served just using a search engine, rather than asking leftypol. For most things.