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Revolutionary Leftism with Breht O'Shea

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Mao and the Cultural Revolution

The great leap forward was an experimental, mass mobilized attempt to industrialize the chinese society. The cultural revolution is another instance in which chaos certainly ensued but intentions, again, matter. socialism absolutely centers on and needs and requires the mass support and mass mobilization of the people. I'm not going to create apology or dismiss the lives that have been lost under mao... But i will actually point out that nothing like facious psychopathic brutality has ever existed in human history.

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