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Woke, Mao, and the American Cultural Revolution

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Six Political Criteria for Academic Freedom

This is a cultural revolution, a Maoist cultural revolution with American characteristics. The slogan quote long term coexistence and mutual supervision is also a product of Chinese specific historical conditions. It was not put forward all of a sudden but had been in the making for several years. Conditions vary in different socialist countries and with different communist parties. Therefore, we do not maintain that they should or must adopt the Chinese way. This is literally him justifying cancel culture. What we call cancel culture today, nobody should be canceled. Nobody should be denied the opportunity of making a living rendering service to the country as long as we do what we say.

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