Left wing perspective over cultural revolution, (a larger perspective on the) full story, good and bad. Nice primer for all of us. :)
Edit: Also, not necessarily “the full story”, or the best of implied judgement by the author. Remember your own theory when listening to other people’s edition of historical events.
Edit: I just replaced the link with a react from hasanabi, which we generally trust better.
Original: https://youtu.be/8jEMlFCaI04 React: https://youtu.be/w9xz-gwDXkI
Second Thought is a respectable comrade, but I think it’s very important to keep in mind that he’s a baby Communist that is still learning basic skills and is fairly lacking in knowledge of international communist history. His interests seem to center around primarily speaking to an American audience about left subjects and debunking myths masking communism more palatable for Americans - which is fine, just narrow, and ultimately I don’t think he has a well tuned detector for subtle anti communism (I don’t think he would pick up on Zizek as an anti communist, for example). With regard to 1Dime specifically, I forget specifics, but I was listening to one of his shows in which he was interviewing another communist at some time and I just remember hearing him say some suspicious things during the interview that raised red flags. Even in this video there are moments where I feel like he is offering a lot of credence to conservative historians, and overall it’s unclear to me that he is even in favor of the Chinese communists goals in his analysis.
I don’t think you can expect any one person to be k owledgable about Marxist history around the globe. So much has happened and so much has been written and analysed, that it’s just impossible to know everything. I would consider myself a long term communist even though I only started reading old texts and new texts etc about 2 years ago - the ethos of communism was always there.
But now that I started reading and watching and discussing, it’s overwhelming. I cannot be expected to know every detail from every historical event and every person and every thing anyone has ever written.
Unfortunately, this is a charge often brought against communists - that we don’t know every small detail about the 1917 revolution, or Hoxha’s time as secretary-General or whatever
That said, I agree to your point that this is what makes it easy for cointelpro stuff to happen and people to invade and recommend subtly uncommunist stuff. Lef’s keep educating our comrades, including myself, without judgement.