2012-03-19

China stirs up the Cultural Revolution; full-scale attack on leftists

There are too many articles to cover, but ifeng.com has special coverage of the Cultural Revolution. Everything is in Chinese, but there's tons of content. Google Translate may or may not do a good job with it, due to many political slogans that may not translate. Below is a screen shot of the front page, the character 左 front and center links to the special reports. Below that are some pictures from the report showing the period. Mao was officially blamed for the Cultural Revolution in the early 1980s and this topic is open for discussion in China, unlike 1989. In the intro to the coverage, it asks questions such as why does leftism lead to disaster? Although this is focused on China, many of the deeper questions are universal, as the Cultural Revolution reflects violence and cruelty seen in the French Revolution and subsequent leftist revolutions until the present day.







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