Posted on 11/21/2015 7:18:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
Supporters of free speech and basic civility throughout the world watched in horror for a decade as Chinese university campuses descended into violent chaos during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Respected professors were shouted down, subjected to public shaming that included being paraded through the streets in dunce caps, and forced to attend public “struggle sessions†which included torture. Anne Thurston recounted the use of the “airplane†maneuver in her work Enemies of the People:
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Social justice is a war on freedom.
And we’d better start fighting back or we’ll go the way of the Nationalist Chinese.
The chinese Cultural Revolution was also a ploy by Mao to remain in power.
Tbey had been trying to sideline him and he provoked a massive distraction.
Same here.
Bingo. And don’t forget Mao’s insane and evil wife.
Just like here.
Well, if the US campus ‘radicals’ follow in the footsteps of the Red Guards, it will end very badly for them ... as it should.
And potentially a lot quicker ... Americans aren’t disarmed yet.
Long live the Republic of Texas!
Has Mizzou been renamed Maozzou?
I'm hoping the Maozzou Red Guards get destroyed today by the Tennessee Vols.
Does the institutional left think they are immune to the wrath of the people? That we do not know who they are?
I read a book a year ago that I found at a yard sale the author of which (not really, he worked with a pro writer) was a young local leader in the Cultural Revolution in Amoy. He got to attend a session with Mao before it was done. Ultimately he became disillusioned and swam to the near shore Nationalist island and made his way to Britain where this book made. A writer was attracted to him and the result is eye opening as to what it was all about. I gave the book away when I was finished to someone I don’t know. I cannot remember the name of the book. I would like to get my hands on another copy but I don’t even know what to look for.
"End of the movement
"By February 1967 political opinion at the center had decided on the removal of the Red Guards from the Cultural Revolution scene in the interest of stability. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) forcibly suppressed the more radical Red Guard groups in Sichuan, Anhui, Hunan, Fujian, and Hubei provinces in February and March. Students were ordered to return to schools; student radicalism was branded 'counterrevolutionary' and banned. There was a wide backlash in the spring against the suppression, with student attacks on any symbol of authority and PLA units. An order from Mao, the Cultural Revolution Group, the State Council, and the Central Military Affairs Committee of the PLA on 5 September 1967 instructed the PLA to restore order to China.
"The PLA violently put down the national Red Guard movement in the year that followed, with the suppression often brutal. A radical alliance of Red Guard groups in Hunan province called the Sheng Wu Lien was involved in clashes with local PLA units, for example, and in the first half of 1968 was forcibly suppressed. At the same time the PLA carried out mass executions of Red Guards in Guangxi province that were unprecedented in the Cultural Revolution. The final remnants of the movement were defeated in Peking in the summer of 1968. Reportedly, in an audience of the Red Guard leaders with Mao, the Chairman informed them gently of the end of the movement with a tear in his eye. The repression of the students by the PLA was not as gentle. After the summer of 1968 some more-radical students continued to travel across China and play an unofficial part in the Cultural Revolution, but by then the movement's official and substantial role was over."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_%28China%29#End_of_the_movement
You must not remember the campus Red Guards of the 60s. They are all professors now and have trained the New Red Guards such as have made their appearance at the U of Mo..
It has accomplished precisely that albeit slowly. The impact is much more clearly seen in the country's primary schools where PC has stunted the academic growth of students despite having millions upon billions thrown at it.
US Red Guard Party was a joke and they were California Chinese students - the students of today are acting like the real Red Guards in China to whom I was referring.
Wake up - these kids are going to become real Red Guards, not the fake ones in the 60s California.
I am talking about the YIP and the Weathermen. Let’s keep it to analogies. There are no formally named “Red Guards” on campus now but that is what these animals are being compared to.
They are being compared to the mainland Chinese Red Guards, not the home grown variety. Who cares about the long ago loser others when these ‘students’ are allied with cop killers (the BLM movement, drug gangs, etc) and are following in the footsteps of the Chinese in the late 60s, not some wannabe US creeps.
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