Was it autism?
it was based
>>18346853It was necessary. Compare india and africa, shitholes still dominated by peasant superstition retardation where they kick cow dung for good fortune, vs The Middle Kingdom which leads the world in everything buy AI funky pops. Moreovwr, let us not forget europe went through its own cultural revolution, but rather than being a state lead campaign to replace the hole ledt behind by ancient cultural traditions being discard, it was a slow death where christianity and cat burning was replaced with Homosexuallity, furryism, and Epstein.
>>18346853Japan did nothing wrong.
>>18347087Yeah pretty much.Reading about Pre-Revolution China is wild. Arguably one of the shittiest and dumbest places on earth. Another point of the Cultural Revolution is that it was Mao's attempt to scare the shit out of the wannabe Khrushchev's in the party that the people still had power and could rise up and to entrench a more Revolutionary/Grassroots system among the populace and arguably it worked. Even if China took a "Capitalist" road, the CCP is far more dynamic, grassroots and localism based even today than the CPSU ever was.
Deng "revolutionized" chinese "culture" more than mao ever would've dreamt of. Culture revolution really was more of a political victory for mao.
>>18347087Severe retardation alert.It's just the culmination of that "peasant superstition retardation" helmed by the most retarded of them all. Deng's ultimate and actually important reform did not need the cultural revolution.which leads the world in everything buy AI funky pops.>which leads the world in everything buy AI funky pops.More like they flooded the market with cheap garbage that people don't actually respect, but only get it because they're wagies and can't afford any better.
>>18346853It was Mao trying to regain the power he lost following the Great Leap Forward.
>I must do this otherwise the revisionists will restore capitalism>after his death capitalism is restored anyways by the same people he fought against He was kinda right
>>18347087>>18347759>>18347804>18347815>>18347822Meiji Japan and France both destroyed their own cultures.>>18299030Did you know what Meiji Japan did to Japanese castles and temples and culture after westernising and what King Henry VIII did to England's monasteries and literature and what French revolutionaries did to French history and architecture and what Napoleon's army did to Spain and Portugal's historical relics?
>>18347087>>18347759>18347804>18347815>18347822>>18347893Japan annihilated and destroyed its own culture in the Meiji restorationhttps://desuarchive.org/his/thread/16634206/#q16634206>>16634206Tens of thousands of Japanese temples, shrines and castles were destroyed and decades later rebuilt with steel and concrete for dumb western tourists like you.Japan destroyed its traditional social structure violently in the blood tax riots.Japan even destroyed its traditional burial customs and food taboos, switching to eating dairy in the Meiji restoration while stop eating dogs and cats, and forcing its people to cremate.French culture was destroyed in the French revolution.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/15158610/#q15159608>>15159608Japanese violently destroyed their own culture in the Meiji restoration, destroying tens of thousands of temples, shrines and castles and destroying their own culture to westerniseFrance violently destroyed its own culture in the French revolution and then Napoleon destroyed Spain and Portugal's heritage.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/13277598/#q1327776690% of South Korean men circumcise. (Agaisnt Confucianism)90% of South Koreans cremated the dead. (Agaisnt Confucianism)Most traditional Korean palaces have been destroyed like Gyeongbokgung and what stands today is a 20th century replica.Most Korean clan genealogies are 20th century forgeries (over half of Koreans who descend from the peasant class now claim ancestry from royalty) by totally unrelated people who joined together and fabricated a common genealogy.Korean "traditional food" includes spam soup (Budae-jjigae) from US army rations.Korean "traditional" martial arts like taekwondo, kumdo were invented and copied from other counties in the 20th century.Korean traditional Hanbok exposes breasts but they are too ashamed to wear it now.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/13869957/#q13869957
>>18347087>>18347804>>18347815>>18347893>>18347895South Korea also mass destroyed traditional shrines and shamanism in the 1960s and 1970s under reforms by their dictatorship to westernise the country.That's why Korean shamanism were forced to convert to Protestant Christianity and found their own weird Protestant church cults.South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are all westernised.Conficianism demands women be segregated from male strangers and put in full clothes, Taiwanese, South Korean and Japanese women work and wear miniskirts in public and have extramarital sex.None of them follow traditions.The KMT (Nationalists) had the exact same cultural destruction program.The pro-westernisation modernisation May Fourth movement and Kuomintang all attacked traditional culture.The US backed these movements and American Protestants said all East Asian culture needed to be destroyed to Americanise East Asia.>In this sense, they are correct. There was no “Century of Humiliation”, there has been a continuous string of many centuries that have been nothing but humiliation, all as a result of the arrogance of Chinese elite.Ming China defeated the Portuguese and Dutch East India Company in every single war for two centuries (16th and 17th).The Qing also defeated France on land in the Sino-French war in Taiwan and Tonkin.Communist party and KMT amd Meiji Japan learned their ideologies about destroying traditional culture from you- the west.Western missionaries attacked the "arrogance" of Chinese officials while openly demanding destruction of tradition.
>>18347087>>18347804>>18347822>>18347858>>18347897Also Communists in Outer Mongolia destroyed traditional Mongolian culture there too.Mongol, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese all wear western suits and ties.None of then are traditional.
>>18347893>>18347895King Henry VIII destroyed almost all ancient Anglo-Saxon literature in the dissolution of the monasteries and other Protestant countries did it in the Protestant reformation smashing old relics.French destroyed traditional culture in the wars of religion and French revolution.Napoleon destroyed it in Spain and Portugal and they also dissolved the monasteries on the 19th centuries.Cagot and Burakumin Eta untouchables were freed and burned genealogical records in revolutionary France and Meiji Japan in the blood tax riots.
>>18346853>"relentlessly critize everything!">gets mildly criticized for a major fuck up>paralyzes the whole country indefinitely so that he never gets critized again
The worry at the time for leftists was that China would go the way of Russia and become revisionist, state capitalist. Liu and Deng seemed to want to do this and they had become the de facto leaders of the party after the failure of the Mao-led GLF. By initiating the CR, Mao (and/or his clique, his wife, the gang of four) China stayed well away from that "rightist" path. Whether it was worth it or not depends on your view of the long term outcome. China is today acts independently from foreign interests in a way that might've been difficult or impossible had it followed the path Russia did, you could say. The economic costs were not that grave since the economy grew rapidly throughout the period. Some groups certainly suffered - those on the losing side of various factional battles, the old party leadership and cadres who took the wrong side. But others benefited, a whole new class of leaders; and people in the country, being sent the posh kids from the cities as their helpers, nurses and teachers. There was iconoclasm and that's awful of course. But overall it's not clearcut That is in political terms. On personal terms, how it must have been for certain city dwellers, it sounds awful. But the story we get is mostly from exiles who were on the losing side. I find it interesting how few normal people alive at the time seem to have anything much to say about the events at all. Whether that's from fear or because for most people it wasn't as all-encompassing as we might think, I don't know. There are many terrible stories from the archives which are acknowledged by Chinese scholars. Pitched battles on the city streets, tanks, widespread violence and murder. All sorts of institutions and places of work split in half, both side claiming to be the ones who are REALLY revolutionary and REALLY on the side of Mao. It certainly was crazy. But how widespread was it and how much did it affect the ordinary people - not so sure about that
>>18348122https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/18298048/#q18298048There's a myth spread by tankies, and anti-Chinese people that CCP is made out of or close to Manchus, Koreans, Mongols (citizens of China).During the 1930s, the CCP massacred Koreans in the Minsaedang incident even before they took power.In the Cultural Revolution, the CCP massacred Koreans and Mongols and Manchus.Koreans were slaughtered in Yanbian in 1967 by Red Guards who threw their corpses into trains to North Korea.Mongols were slaughtered, butchered wholesale for three whole years in 1967, 1968, 1969 by Red Guards in the Inner Mongolia incident. There was sodomy and rape involved too.Manchus were slaughtered and humiliated by Red Guards at the same time.Manchu Lao She was forced to commit suicide in Beijing in 1966 by Red GuardsAfter Deng Xiaoping took power, Deng refused to exempt Manchus, Koreans and Mongols from population controlManchus had one child policy applied to them. Koreans and Mongols were also forced to follow guidelines on how many children they could have and Manchus, Koreans and Inner Mongold all have low below replacement TFR. Most of them were only allowed one or two children.Its other minorities like Tibetans, Miao, Tujia who were exempted from one child policy.CCP rule is good if you're a Miao or Tibetan.If you're a Manchu, Korean or Mongol, you've been subjected to repeated massacres, public humiliations and rapes under Mao's rule and forced population control under DengYet conspiracy theorists and tankies think CCP favours Mongols, Manchus and Koreans?There's no conspiracy theorists claiming Tibetans are secretly controlling the CPC politburoChinese state media even openly threw Koreans under the bus when Koreans from Yanbian smuggled fetus powder pills to South Korea to use as aphrodisiacs (Yanbian Koreans have low TFR and were grinding their own fetuses)Chinese state media openly pointed out its ethnic Koreans and not Han people doing this
>>18347087Explain why destroying ancient artifacts was nessesary then?
It was quite harsh but at some point you have no choice. Like if communists took over Saudi Arabia they’d have to completely destroy the pre-existing culture/religion there, otherwise they would always have reactionary forces trying to undo their work.
>>18348172Mao was copying Meiji Japan and revolutionary France and King Henry VIII.All of which mass destroyed old architecture and artifacts.Japan is full of fake concrete castles.
>>18347897>Western missionaries attacked the "arrogance" of Chinese officials while openly demanding destruction of tradition.Non-Christian traditions are satanic by-default and thus anyone who believes in them is of the devil, I.E. prideful.
