Last time it was when we released 'The CIA's Shining Path', this time it's because they took issue with ProleWiki's Bordiga page lmao
that Bordiga page doing a lot of work with just two little sentences, they hate it so much lol
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Which one anyway?
There was this one by Drew Smith, a foreign professor who decided to settle in China, called the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" podcast and in a nutshell, he said it was, in a nutshell:
A mixed bag of good and bad in terms of judgement,
A kerfufle between pseudo-anarcho ultra-lefts, lefts, and right factions of the Communist party...
From what I've heard: I guess some rural and urban areas developed not only politically but materially, like Xi'an, where Drew lives, but some turned into out-right street battles where guns and artillery were even used in the 'arm the Left' campaign...
Weird shit ranged from worshipping Mao like that of a God to forcing a professor to chug ink and kick him in the stomach to vomit, for having the wrong ideas...
Some seizures of power were genuine, some of them were just self-coups (autogolpes)
It had interviews with some Chinese and foreign people who either personally experienced it, studied it academically, or both... so I don't think this podcast is necessarily an ego-boosting ultra project...
The name sounds familiar, but I don't remember much beyond very black and white depictions of the CR, whitewashing any negative events, I think I might've listened to the first episode of Drew Smith's podcast, but his isn't the one I'm remembering and I think I may have mixed up an anecdote he told with something else, which was full "hero worship" and was just talking about Mao's "greatness" instead of discussing him, I'll see if I can't find it again.