Central Committee might support Jiang Qing and her allies in a showdown
Why would they support Jiang Qing when they previously said that she was loyal to Mao?
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- Apr 2017
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The Cultural Revolution36 Some of the mindless violence of the early Cultural Revolution flowed from the fact that the country had apparently been turned over to gangs of high school students, and no one dared rein them in for fear of seeming counterrevolutionary.
Similar to what I stated before about youth starting the revolutions, they are also the ones that are able to turn the revolution back.
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Youth were thus easy for Maoists to mobilize at the outset of the Cultural Revolution.
Similar to Vietnam and the music we listened to at the beginning of the year on the Middle East, it seems like the youth are the ones that are most important for a revolution.
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The cult declined in the 1970s, along with the Maoists’ effective use of spectacle. As Mao’s health declined, his words became ever more oracular, mysterious rather than inspiring.
This is probably why the Revolution quickly died out because Mao could not control the propaganda as well.
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was twice as long as the edition for workers and peasants, which had shorter articles and many more explanatory footnotes
This was probably so the workers could understand it better. Although, they might have changed the book to employ a different message to a different group.
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The Mao cult
I think that this is similar to the dystopian book 1984 where Big brother enjoys a cult of personality as the leader. Also, it is similar to how Kim Jong Un enjoys a cult of personality as the supreme leader in North Korea.
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Such theatricality had the practical purpose of disseminating broad political messages in a society with limited communications, and where Party-controlled mass media often seemed monotonous.
Seems like Mao is trying to control both types of opinion, mass media and word of mouth.
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es to the young through a highly publicized swim in the Yangzi River at Wuhan.
This is a weird example of propaganda showing the their supreme leader is healthy by making him swim.
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hetoric and state-sanctioned chaos,
This is similar to most other autocratic governments especially like North Korea who has chaotic concentration camps for government dissenters.
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“Politics in Command” was a popular Maoist sloga
This slogan is kinda an example of propaganda because it states that the problems the people are facing will be resolved by politics.
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Chairman Mao felt shut out by more conservative comrades, and fought to re-impose his influence.
Similar to how Hitler felt isolated in his party and felt the need to take power onto himself
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the eleven years of Cultural Revolution are typically treated as a coherent era, we can better understand it as divided into two very different phases.
Is it a cultural Revolution or two separate revolutions?
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Mao Zedong met with the visiting novelist and French minister of culture André Malraux, in 1965
Weird that he would visit a French man about communist ideas.
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overly ambitious,
Most revolutions are overly ambitious. For example, the Directory was part of the French Revolution and killed many people with dissenting opinions.
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The Party was slow in comprehending this disaster
Where they just slow in comprehension or did they just not care about their citizens enough?
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Lower officials, anxious of being judged “rightist,” too quickly assured their bosses of successes in every field
This reminds me of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin where people would agree with him because they did not want to be killed.
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China’s revolutionary politics were also nationalist
The rationalistic policies are similar to other authoritarian governments use of nationalism as propaganda.
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During the Cultural Revolution Beijing and Washington tempered their long hostility with Nixon’s 1971 visit
This is a contrast to previous policies led by the domino effect.
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The Cultural Revolution was part of the global movement of radical youth in the 1960s and 1970s
Do you think that the counter-culture movement of the American society of teens at this time spread to China and started this movement?
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four-fifths of Chinese were peasants
This reminds me of the Communist Manifesto because Marx said that the majority of the proletarian would rise and overthrow their leaders. However, he was wrong because he claimed it would start 100 years earlier in Britain.
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- Mar 2017
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ssy Riot has gainedextensive attention, contradicting the lack of responsiveness forforeign and explicit political protests (Della Porta et al., 2009).However, by focusing mainly on Pussy Riot’s media appearances,Twitter audiences do display a lack of responsiveness to politicaladvocacy.
Even though they are very popular, they do not have followers that actively support them.
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No. In prison we could see the terrible conditions
Similar to the the interview video, the members were not afraid in prison even though they had some of the worst conditions.
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gain, it is a (reiterated) statement that involves Tolokonni-kova and Alyokhina’s prison experience and their views on soli-darit
Punk music seems to have more of an effect the more the establishment tries to control it.
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This particular period was chosen because it con-cerned a short period in which Pussy Riot’s two main membersappeared in several mediatized events and news media in variousWestern countries
I wonder how non-western countries reacted.
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LGBTQ and feminists (
This is shown in the trump video where they focused on social problems for women and the LGBTQ community.
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often did not enjoy interna-tional or even national fame prior to their political advoca
Shock events, harsh beatings, and social media got them famous
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The following trial received global media coverage asthe Punk Prayer video had gone viral on YouTub
This is similar to what the article was talking about at the beginning when he stated that people expressed their opinions over social media and took videos of them instead of participating.
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Third, they often experience severe criticism or evenlegal repercussions within their own country, while receivingbroad support from international media outlets
Their own police and people in the Church they were protesting in did not like their message and proceeded to attack them and kick them out. Western Culture has embraced Pussy Riot but the establishments of Russia have not.
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Second, they explicitly challenge and criticizethe practices of domestic political institutions. Drawing on the(Western) punk genre, Pussy Riot uses public performances withexplicit lyrics to convey their critique on Putin’s regime and tradi-tional domestic institutions, such as the Russian OrthodoxChurch.
In the video about Trump, Pussy riots show that they care more about political and social affairs instead of just their own government. I feel their message would be more popular if they focused on one specific criticism at a time.
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witter users predominantly talk about Pussy Riot’s mediaappearances rather than readily engage with its explicit political advocac
I feel that this could be a problem with increasing technology if people are tweeting about what Pussy Riot is doing instead of actively engaging in their spontaneous rebellions.
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