Confessions of a Red Guard, 50 years after China’s Cultural Revolution

I see shades of the Maoist Red Guards in the US today. The idea is to play on the ignorance of young people who have been indoctrinated by statist leaders who are themselves typically ignorant of economics and human nature.

What we see in ANTIFA, you know the white kids with trust funds and dreadlocks screaming about being “anti-fascist” when they appear to be every bit as racist and deluded as those they oppose? You know those guys? Is the same insanity (though thankfully to a much much smaller degree, thank God) that gripped China half a century ago. The young people think they are doing good. They think they are being “progressive.” But what they really are are henchmen, or as Lenin the Soviet socialist revolutionary and leader called them, “USEFUL IDIOTS.”

By the way, Kudos to CNN for running this piece. It came out last year right before the news outlet went full on propaganda.

(From CNN)

I have lived a life haunted by guilt.

In 1966, I was one of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Red Guards. Myself and millions of other middle and high school students started denouncing our teachers, friends, families and raiding homes and destroying other people’s possessions.

Textbooks explain the Cultural Revolution — in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed and millions more abused and traumatized — as a political movement started and led by Mao “by mistake,” but in reality it was a massive catastrophe for which we all bear responsibility…

…I was one of the most active students — if not the most revolutionary — when the class held a struggle session against Ms. Zhang.

I pulled accusations out of nowhere, saying she was a heartless and cold woman, which was entirely false.

Others accused her of being a Christian because the character “Ji” in her name could refer to Christianity.

Our groundless criticisms were then written into “big character” posters — a popular way of criticizing “class enemies” and spreading propaganda — 60 of them in total, which covered the exterior walls of our classroom building.

Not long after, she was sent to the cowshed — a makeshift prison for intellectuals and other “bourgeois elements” — and suffered all kinds of humiliation and abuse.

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http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/