Was the Cultural Revolution the greatest adolescent fantasy of all time?
The leader of a country literally just told all the youth to drop out of school and go beat up old people for being counter revolutionaries instead.
19 yr old me would have been ecstatic to be put in that situation.
>>1181733
>Government sponsored edgelordism.
Thanks for the chuckles and a new way to view Cultural Revolution.
>>1181733
>Great
>Proletarian
>Cultural
>Revolution
>>1181782
It was definitively great in scale
>>1181733
>Not being a counter revolutionary
It's as if you lot don't know what gradual reform is, please read some Burke.
>>1181733
Yeah it was great if you weren't in the receiving end.
I think this is one of the reasons why so many Chinese people love Mao, they just want to party like it's 1966 again.
>>1181933
actually they hate the cultural revolution and view it as error, mao stay innocent in chinese eyes because they shift the blame about the whole thing on his wife and her acquaintance, all of which later died in prison