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Cultural Revolution

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A sociopolitical movement in China characterized by anti-intellectualism and valorization of blue-collar work, described here as having 'Red Scare' aesthetic qualities including opposition to psychiatry and public arts funding.

Mentions (4)
"Like yea you kinda have to do the cultural revolution or you get Hinduvita. You need to surpress bronze age beliefs like caste or else you just have a bunch of Martha's Vinyards in the middle of slums."
"Fucked over by Mao during the Cultural Revolution purges and exiled to a factory job in the countryside (his son literally being paralyzed from Red Guards throwing out of a window)."
I can't stop thinking about Deng Xiaoping · u/FinanceQuestionStuff · ↑331 · 2025-05-14
"- Jiang Qing was the ultimate art hoe/BPD gf - valorizing of blue collar work over intellectuals - Libs got owned - STEM professors got owned by humanities/politics students - opposed to psychiatry - effete students got sent to be peasants to toughen up (no fatties) - strong sense of community/third"
The Cultural Revolution was extremely RS · u/victorian_secrets · ↑154 · 2024-09-21
"Even in places that weren't exactly keen on the British government, like Cultural Revolution China or during demonstrations against the government in communist Poland."
How does the BBC have such an insane library of footage? · u/Bradyrulez · ↑57 · 2024-08-10
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