Guns and Butter, for August 29, 2012 - 1:00pm
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"The International Impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution" with Ann Tomkins and Robert Weil. Ann Tomkins talks about her personal experience living and working in Beijing during the first five years of the Cultural Revolution, in which she was first an observer, and then a participant. Robert Weil discusses some of the reasoning that led to the Cultural Revolution, which was a revolution within a revolultion, and some of the enduring ideas about people and society that it spawned. Encore presentation.
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I concur with Simon completely. Very romantic and painfully over the top.
A painful listen. Poor old baby boomer ideologues who still suffer under the romantic delusion that the Maoist 'experiment' had anything to do with class struggle. Thankfully younger generations of researchers seem to take a broader view, analyzing statism and control without the dogmatic perspective.