China's Cultural Revolution

[LOLseph Stalin]

Hi. I was wondering where I could find good sources online about China's Cultural Revolution, perferably from a Trotskyist viewpoint. My knowledge of this subject is pretty much just what I know from Bourgeois sources.

Thanks in advance. :)

[mykittyhasaboner]

Nigel Harris is a Trot, here's (http://www.marxists.de/china/harris/05-cultrev.htm) the section dealing with the GPCR in his Mandate of Heaven. Also, Rawthentic posted this (http://www.revleft.com/vb/major-study-cultural-t98316/index.html) a while back.

[LOLseph Stalin]

Thanks. :) I really want to know more about this topic from a different perspective besides that of the bourgeoisie.

[AvanteRedGarde]

Except for Lui Shaio Chi, there were no trotskyists during the cultural revolution. I think his daughter put out a memoir. Perhaps you can check that out.

Just kidding.

Seriously though, the best think I've read by a nominally Trotskyist was by Sam Marcy. He is sympathetic to the left, which I find aggreeable. Check that out.

[BobKKKindle$]

Liu Shaoqi was not a Trotskyist. He was one of the original supporters of the Cultural Revolution (as well as the Great Leap Forward during the 1950s) but was later removed from his position as Party Deputy Chairman and identified as a "capitalist roader", leading to him being interned in prison for the rest of his life, without access to medical care, until he died in 1969. China did have a Trotskyist movement, which argued that the working class would have to play the major political role in overthrowing both capitalism and feudalism despite its numerical weakness, in contrast to those who placed greater emphasis on the peasantry, but it was purged from the CPC during the 1920s and 1930s. An interesting account of the Cultural Revolution is 'Some of Us' (http://www.amazon.com/Some-Us-Chinese-Women-Growing/dp/0813529697), which covers the experiences of women, including young women who were sent to the countryside in order to learn from the peasants, during the period.

[Sendo]

Read Mobo Gao's work or just about anything put out by the Monthly Review Press. I don't know where you'd find a good Trotskyist perspective since the Chinese Left is largely Maoist. Any writer who is not fluent in Chinese is just secondhand tripe. But that's only because that's what his sources will be. Just secondhand and translated secondhand at that. There's little to no translation of good firsthand accounts except that lying fuckface ZHANG Rong / Jung CHANG