Category: China’s Cultural Revolution
What the West can learn: Yellow Vests are demanding a Cultural Revolution (8/8)
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog For years I have talked about “White Trash Revolutions”, and the emergence of the Yellow Vests proves that my finger is perfectly on…
Ending a Cultural Revolution Can Only Be Counter-Revolutionary (7/8)
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog Well, you can end a Cultural Revolution without being a counter-revolutionary, I suppose, but not if you do what China did: reverse many…
How the socioeconomic gains of China’s Cultural Revolution fueled their 1980s boom (6/8)
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog There are almost too many socioeconomic gains for me to list… and yet the idea that China’s Cultural Revolution (CR) represented not gains…
Red Guards ain’t all red: Who fought whom in China’s Cultural Revolution? (5/8)
By RAMIN MAZAHERI In Part 3 of this 8-part series I answered the question raised by that part’s title: Why was a Cultural Revolution needed in already-Red China? To recap:…
How the Little Red Book created a cult ‘of socialism’ and not ‘of Mao’ (4/8)
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog What is Mao’s Little Red Book, first published in 1964 at the start of the Cultural Revolution? In 2019, I think we have…
Why was a Cultural Revolution needed in already-Red China? (3/8)
Supporters of Mao’s cultural revolution. Their aspirations and backgrounds were and remain congruent with the interests of the Chinese masses. By RAMIN MAZAHERI In every modern revolution the winners owed…
The story of a martyr FOR, and not BY, China’s Cultural Revolution (2/8)
By RAMIN MAZAHERI, Greanvillepost.com Actually talk to rural people in China and you can certainly learn of martyrs FOR the Cultural Revolution; talk to disgraced party elites, abusive factory bosses, tyrannical…
A necessary revolution in discussing China’s Cultural Revolution: an 8-part series (1/8)
By RAMIN MAZAHERI, Greanvillepost.com Perhaps the most important unresolved dichotomy in the West today is not the male-female divide but the urban-rural divide. The #MeToo Movement is making advances towards better…