Why is the Cultural Revolution in China considered a negative event by historians?
>>18576175Because during this was destroyed a lot of Chinese cultural heritage?
>>18576175Everyone considers it a negative event, including the modern CCP and even most of the CCP at the time it was occuring, all the way up to Zhou Enlai. The cultural revolution was a bunch of batshit insane kids rampaging through the country wildly.
>>18576182A lot of that cultural heritage was awful, though. Things like the dog eating festival are revivals of practices that were quashed in the Cultural Revolution.
>>18576175Smashing ancient statues and architecture is a bad thing actually. Imagine if they demolished the pyramids just for being built in honor of absolute monarchs
idk why did china immediately try to distance itself from the cultural revolution after mao died?
>>18576175Arguably it did break down a lot of social hierarchy which was positive in the long run. On the downside it was basically a civil war, a lot of people died in brutal / horrifying fashion, and they didn't have really anything obvious to show for it, at least in the short term they just became poorer. Also a lot of general weirdness that you get with ideological radicalization and one man being worshipped as a God. Every young person had to join the Red Guards and if you didn't you became a target and then they fought each other to death in gang warfare (except without the drugs, although maybe Mao Zedong Thought is like a drug). This scene is adapted from a novel but the author is Chinese, all it took was a single allegation of not being red enough and you could be subjected to a struggle session and killed:https://youtu.be/aS8c6hLj7uABut I think it's interesting if you look at it from a kind of Dark Marxist view in which social transformation and historical development is produced in a contradictory fashion between interactions of both positive *and* negative tendencies. It could be the best thing that ever happened to China and also the worst thing that ever happened to China. Both positive and negative, just extreme in this case. Something to think about, have a great week.
>>18576221If the Pyramids were built atop stores of valuable natural resources they would be gone in an instant. We only keep monuments of the inferior culture out of apathy.
>>18576175Same reason as BLM movement
>>18576312The Cultural Revolution did the opposite of BLM though: pre-socialist Chinese culture harboured an opioid addiction, and the Red Guard destroyed it. BLM was formed by and for the opioid addicts.
>>18576175Because they don't want to relinquish privilege and do actual labor.
>>18576307Say that to the egyptians, which modern national identity is 1000% based on those stacked rocks.
>>18576384The modern Egyptians are members of an inferior culture.
It is a mystery. New China couldn’t have been built without it.
>>18576256China had to get rid of people like that. You need to understand that it was a radical new approach when Hitler kicked them out, and it never turned out to work. It isn't the science that built Europe. Pretty much all the results are bullshit, and all the following progress was milking 19th century science. No progress is possible anymore, and everything and every project gets drowned in thousand of pages of pointless bullshit.
>>18576224Because it caused widespread destruction and chaos across the country with no clear benefit. It also increased crime which Deng then had to clean up.
>>18576978>no clear benefitThe four olds were objectively awful.
>>18576999>is... is that a Buddhist temple from the 13th century???>aaaaahhhh I'm going inssaaaannneeeee, time to rape, disembowel and cannibalize random people
>>18576175Ikr? The cultural revolution delayed China's attempts to catch up to the west by at least one generation, which is obviously a net positive on the global scale.
>>18577166Buddhism is antithetical to modernization.
>>18576191>tfw Zhou Enlai had to deploy the PLA to contain the Red Guards' chimpout
changs are still superstitious retards even after the cultural revolution, and the worst elements of chang culture were eliminated well before it. so they have to invent weird copes like putting the centuries-old corpse of a ming emperor on show trial was the only way to get kids to study physics o algo
>>18576427Hey now, islam isnt THAT bad.
Because historians want cushy jobs rather than grow their own food.
>>18576215Nobody cares about that. They care about the Temple of Confucius being desecrated and having its sculptures destroyed because the Communists were mad that a guy told them to listen to their parents.
>>18576999They clearly aren't awful as the modern Chinese government is supporting and promoting traditional Chinese culture and religion. https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/the-two-tracks-of-xi-jinping-s-religious-policy
>>18578803The modern Chinese government is doing the exact same thing the Qing did, submitting to western powers and their whims.
>>18576175China was in extraordinarily bad shape when Mao died, internationally isolated, having the per capita GDP of an African country, low labor morale, backward technology, very low living standards, and extraordinary inefficiency and waste of resources.
>>18579412What on earth are you talking about? China is the most powerful anti-Western power there is
>>18580151Opposed to western powers, but not western commerce and consumers.
>Meanwhile, the post-Deng cultural revival
