Cultural revolution

[quirk]

Can anyone give me some links to articles about the cultural revolution in China, preferably from a Maoist perspective.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Set the Record Straight Project (http://thisiscommunism.org/)
The Truth about the Cultural Revolution (http://thisiscommunism.org/pdf/CultRev.pdf)
A Revolution within a Revolution (http://revcom.us/a/003/cultural-revolution-china.htm)

There's alot more stuff, but the rwor.org section of the RCP website is down right now and has most of the articles on Cultural Revolutionary China. There are also alot of texts that can't be found online like "They made Revolution within Revolution" which I can mail you for about 3 to 4 bucks.

Basically the cultural revolution was a mass movement in which the people were told to rapidly secure power from the capitalist roaders that were in the party and had seized power in the USSR, as well as propel China from socialism into full fledged communism through a mass upsurge. Big character critiscisms went up on the wall, factory management was taken over by the workers completly, police in the rural areas was abolished and replaced with popular volunteer worker and student militias, education was completly changed and became based on full class disscussion and struggle rather than lectures and rigid exams, fuedal culture which encouraged suppression of woman and peasantry and workers was smashed, and etc... it was basically the highest point of the socialist experience thus far.

[Spirit of Spartacus]

Basically the cultural revolution was a mass movement in which the people were told to rapidly secure power from the capitalist roaders that were in the party and had seized power in the USSR, as well as propel China from socialism into full fledged communism through a mass upsurge.

Errr...let's keep the "propel China from socialism into full fledged communism" part out, please. :P

I mean, stateless communism is neither desirable nor sustainable without the abolition of ALL states worldwide.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

yes of course, which is why at the same time, and before the Cultural revolution, China was aiding revolutions all over the world from the national liberation forces in Africa, to the Vietcong in Vietnam, to the DPRK in their struggle against the south and American imperialists