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I guess Maoism can be described as “yo, let’s fuck shit up”, because I struggle trying to think of a single policy that didn’t have victims in the thousands or millions.
But .ml thinks that’s OK because those were all counter-revolutionaries.
I kind of skimmed through my Asian history textbook as we entered the more modern era (it was a long ass book man, I just wanted to pass my exam…), but learning about the cultural revolution was saddening. Like, we learned that China was huge on recording its history and all the different types of influences it’s had on other countries. So to go burning, smashing, defacing, etc. thousand year old pagodas, Buddhist statues, temples, etc. and slaughtering creatives along with their works is just devastating. You look at your world-defining culture rooted in literal ancient history and spit on it? I totally understand not hating the Chinese people themselves, and seeing how systems other than capitalism can have their merits, but I will never be able to understand how people can defend the CCP’s atrocities. Killing thousands along with your culture is a modern-day burning of Alexandria.
I’m not familiar with eastern culture. What specific three thousand year old cultural thing did he destroy that doesn’t currently exist in a Wikipedia entry?
Large numbers of artifacts and historical sites were vandalized or destroyed entirely.
How should we know what he destroyed? He destroyed them so we dont have them anymore lol
You know the famous Traditional Chinese medicine? Until recently, students had to go to Taiwan or other neighbouring countries to learn it, since most records and materials had been destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.
Wasn’t traditional Chinese medicine widely promoted through Mao and the following governments?
I mean maybe today since TCM has been largely discredited as the (sometimes) literal snake oil it is, but yeah that’s for sure not due to Mao.
In 1950, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Mao Zedong announced support of traditional Chinese medicine; this was despite the fact that Mao did not personally believe in and did not use TCM, according to his personal physician Li Zhisui.[11] In 1952, the president of the Chinese Medical Association said that, “This One Medicine, will possess a basis in modern natural sciences, will have absorbed the ancient and the new, the Chinese and the foreign, all medical achievements – and will be China’s New Medicine!”[11]
During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) the CCP and the government emphasized modernity, cultural identity and China’s social and economic reconstruction and contrasted them to the colonial and feudal past. The government established a grassroots health care system as a step in the search for a new national identity and tried to revitalize traditional medicine and made large investments in traditional medicine to try to develop affordable medical care and public health facilities.
