Why the Cultural Revolution Failed: Lessons For Leftists

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This is the follow-up video to the previous 1Dime video documentary, "China's Cultural Revolution: The Full Story."    • China's Cultural Revolution: The Full...  

In this sequel 1Dime video, we analyze the key lessons that people (especially leftists) can learn from the events of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and I offer my own interpretation of it all. Be sure to comment on your interpretation of the events after watching these two videos!

Timestamps:

0:00 Why It's Important
1:53 What Failed?
3:29 Creation vs Destruction
8:38 Interpretations and "Human Nature"
12:06 Slave Morality and "Cancel Culture”
15:07 Class as a Political Category
19:18 Power to the People?
21:20 The Basic Questions

Shoutout to ‪@BalkanOdyssey_‬ , ‪@themarxistproject‬ ‪@Marxism_Today‬ for reading quotes in this video!

Sources/Books where I got my research from:

-Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture by Alessandro Russo
-Mao’s China and After by Maurice Meisner
-The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution by Mobo Gao
-The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in the Chinese Village by Dongping Han
-Agents of Disorder: Inside China's Cultural Revolution by Andrew G. Walder
-The Cultural Revolution at the Margins by Yiching Wu

The article I mentioned: https://thepointmag.com/politics/dism...

Check out my original Cultural Revolution essay in the book Underground Theory with Slavoj Zizek https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Th...

Credits:
Written, Narrated, and Directed by 1Dime (@1Dimeofficial on Twitter)
Edited by Dr Nox

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