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The lesson learnt there: you cannot better people's material conditions, and end poverty with ideological struggle, or isolationism.

The cultural revolution lead to a drastic increase in material conditions to the vast majority of the Chinese population. This can be tracked from education to food availability.

In fact, the rural collectives, working more autonomously than they do now, were able to build industry to a scale never seen before in China. The schools they built in rural areas, which previously went ignored by the party, raised literacy rates to near 90%. That's up from around 30% previously.

The industrialization undertaken in these areas was SO successful that Deng's government privatized them and built upon them to "develop productive forces" that were already being developed at previously unseen speeds.

I'm not saying that the reform era is revisionist or whatever. Clearly, the strategy has worked out incredibly in many ways (and failed in others), but the idea that the cultural revolution was some kind of economic disaster that stunted industrial production is false. It's a myth that's carted out as justification for the reforms (which, frankly, isn't needed because the arguments for reform can stand on their own merit).

All of this and more can be found in Dongping Han's "The Unknown Cultural Revolution"

This seems so fucking useful on the internet

There's no tension in the top right one. They fuckin went for it

Lining up defeated Nazis in the community rec center, rolling out an old CRT TV, and showing them the Green Book lmao.

They'll be begging for the wall in no time.

We should try to reform them by giving them gainful employment.

To this end, I suggest we put tons of them in major positions of power. You know, like America did after the war.

She expressed actually wanting advertisements

We're all subject the cultural norms of the society that we live in. Particularly with religious norms, maintaining them can be coercive.

But that doesn't mean that burkas, in and of themselves, are regressive.

Shouldn't the goal be to create a space that is free of coercion so people can actually choose to wear it if they want to? Outright banning them is just enforcing a different cultural norm.

Commies and fascists are the same thing because they do the violence. The reasons they do the violence is not relevant.

I, a good democrat, don't do the violence. Those bodies that keep piling up in other (dirty, evil) countries during Democrat run governments are coincidental. All the funding I give to police departments totally aren't related to the police blasting people in the streets daily. I know this because my ideology is totally not conservative.

Well, Russia isn't fantastic