The type of "culture" that was targeted for uprooting during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was old trash that glorified the old society: one characterized by feudal oppression, women with bound feet, religious superstition, primitive production methods, and all kinds of backwardness. Good riddance to art that glorifies feudal landlords, emperors, kings, images of oppressed women, etc.
Today, China only pretends to be socialist. The capitalist roaders in the party that Mao called upon the masses to overthrow did exactly as he warned they would when they came to power (after his death in 1976). They set China on the capitalist road, and today it is full of sweatshops. The bourgeois "right" to exploit the labor of others for profit has been restored. There is homelessness, poverty, and inadequate health care. The current Chinese government is not about liberating people from all forms of oppression and exploitation. It is HARD-CORE about selling out the Chinese people to the highest bidder.
The GPCR was about destroying the old and creating the new. A new culture that promotes equality, not inequality. Proletarian internationalism over narrow nationalism, and the liberation of all of humanity from the "Four Alls"-- all forms of exploitation, all forms of oppression, all the social relations that result from and serve exploitation and oppression, and all the ideas that result from and serve exploitation and opression. THAT's communism, not these capitalist exploiters waving red flags around who run the show in China today!
If you think China is communist, you'd better read the Communist Manifesto over again. They are capitalists waving red flags around, and have been since the coup in 1976, shortly after Mao Zedong's death (exactly what Mao warned would happen if Deng Xiaoping became chairman). They are what's known as "phony communists".
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The type of "culture" that was targeted for uprooting during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was old trash that glorified the old society: one characterized by feudal oppression, women with bound feet, religious superstition, primitive production methods, and all kinds of backwardness. Good riddance to art that glorifies feudal landlords, emperors, kings, images of oppressed women, etc.
Today, China only pretends to be socialist. The capitalist roaders in the party that Mao called upon the masses to overthrow did exactly as he warned they would when they came to power (after his death in 1976). They set China on the capitalist road, and today it is full of sweatshops. The bourgeois "right" to exploit the labor of others for profit has been restored. There is homelessness, poverty, and inadequate health care. The current Chinese government is not about liberating people from all forms of oppression and exploitation. It is HARD-CORE about selling out the Chinese people to the highest bidder.
The GPCR was about destroying the old and creating the new. A new culture that promotes equality, not inequality. Proletarian internationalism over narrow nationalism, and the liberation of all of humanity from the "Four Alls"-- all forms of exploitation, all forms of oppression, all the social relations that result from and serve exploitation and oppression, and all the ideas that result from and serve exploitation and opression. THAT's communism, not these capitalist exploiters waving red flags around who run the show in China today!
If you think China is communist, you'd better read the Communist Manifesto over again. They are capitalists waving red flags around, and have been since the coup in 1976, shortly after Mao Zedong's death (exactly what Mao warned would happen if Deng Xiaoping became chairman). They are what's known as "phony communists".
If you'd like to know more about the difference between real and phony communism, and how to spot a phony communist, read Phony Communism is Dead, Long Live Real Communism! by Bob Avakian.