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
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.