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[h=1]Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: party mouthpiece breaks Chinese media silence over 50th anniversary[/h]


People’s Daily editorial warns against allowing discussions to overturn party history as it urges readers to rally around Xi Jinping’s leadership






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15 May 2016


China must learn from the mistakes of the Cultural Revolution and rally around the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece said as it broke the domestic *media’s silence surrounding the event’s 50th anniversary.

A People’s Daily editorial published on Tuesday offered reassurances that the party would not permit such a revolution to happen again, even as it warned against allowing discussions of the turmoil to be used to deny the party’s legitimacy.

Visit the SCMP’s comprehensive multimedia package on the Cultural Revolution

“History has spoken that the Cultural Revolution was wrongfully started by the leadership and used by counter-revolutionary clans. It was a serious catastrophe to the party, the country and people,” the editorial said, quoting the party’s official verdict on the event issued in 1981.

“The revolution is not, and could not, possibly be a revolution or social progress in any sense,” it said. “The mistakes of the Cultural Revolution will not be allowed again.”




The rare reference to the social and political upheaval came after a day of studied silence among Chinese media outlets despite extensive coverage by international news organisations to mark the event. The Global Times, a hawkish tabloid affiliated with People’s Daily, and prominent financial news outlet Caixin also published articles on the Cultural Revolution.

Silence from China marks 50 years since the Cultural Revolution

On May 16, 1966, the party issued a top directive to kick off the political campaign aimed at cleansing itself and its cultural entities of “representatives of the bourgeoisie”.




The revolution lasted 10 years, but most of the violence – anarchic clashes and state-backed purges – occurred in its first 2½ years. According to the party, more than 1.72 million people died – topping the number of British and American deaths in the second world war.

China’s struggle to reflect, 50 years on from the Cultural Revolution

The Global Times editorial said the Chinese people had developed an “antibody” for the revolution and, and thus it surely would not happen again. “We said bye-bye to the Cultural Revolution long ago,” the editorial said. “Today, we can say one more time that the Cultural Revolution cannot and will not reoccur.”

Caixin carried an excerpt of the 1981 party document. “Building a socialist political system with high degree of democracy is one of the key missions of socialist *revolution,” it said, quoting the document.

“The fact that the mission was not attached with importance became an important condition under which the Cultural Revolution broke out. It is a bitter lesson.”
Toe the Communist Party’s red line on Cultural Revolution, state paper warns

People’s Daily said the nation must “firmly remember the historic lessons from the revolution, insist on the party’s verdict and *resist interference from the left and the right over the topic”.

The country was “closer to the goal of the great revival of the Chinese people than at any other point in its history”, the editorial said. The country should unite around Xi and the central leadership of the party, it added.

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[h=3]Society firmly rejects Cultural Revolution[/h]
Source:Global Times Published: 2016-5-17 0:23:01

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Discussions over China's Cultural Revolution have been emerging on the Internet. The decade-long internal chaos was a huge disaster. It is thus normal to hear people talking about it on the 50th anniversary of this movement. On the other hand, however, such discussions cannot be treated as a cleavage in people's ideological understanding. Chinese society shares much more consensus than divergences in terms of the way we see this part of history.

Resolution on certain questions in the history of our party since the founding of the People's Republic of China, adopted in 1981 by the Communist Party of China (CPC), made the authoritative conclusion of the utter denial of Cultural Revolution.

Since then, generations of Chinese leaders have all firmly stuck to the conclusion of the resolution. Completely denying the values of the Cultural Revolution is not only an understanding throughout the party, but also a stable consensus of the whole of Chinese society.

Since the 18th National congress of the CPC, as well as the development of the "Four Comprehensives" strategy, China is getting increasingly closer to the goal of realizing the modernization of country despite ups and downs.

It is not possible for such a revolution to be repeated. The decade of calamity caused severe damage, leaving permanent pain for many Chinese. Entirely denying the values of the Cultural Revolution will help Chinese society remain vigilant against the danger of all kinds of disorder.

Over the past few years, many developing countries have experienced civil strife, but not China. A significant reason is that the lessons the Cultural Revolution taught us has given the nation a certain immunity. Nobody fears turmoil, and desires stability more than us.

China's development in recent decades started from complete denial of the Cultural Revolution in theory and shifting the focus of the country to economic construction in practice. In the over 30 years, we strived to recover from the losses. The shared goal has provided strong momentum for the country's progress. It also helped strengthen social solidarity. The principle of not straying onto the wrong path has been widely endorsed by the public.

The Cultural Revolution era is long over. Reform has brought China to the fore of globalization. No matter whether it is the anti-corruption campaign and advancing rule of law, or developing the public's livelihood and reducing social gap, we must stick to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

We have bid farewell to the Cultural Revolution. We can say it once again today that the Cultural Revolution cannot and will not come back. There is no place for it in today's China.

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Re: Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: People’s Dai

Pre-1949 China was a much different country than what she is today. During that time, Mao was the focal point of peasant revolt against the bourgeois class. It was a revolution, and he was the man of the day. After the Communist took power and ran the country, under them, the first twenty to thirty years were disastrous - as Mao wasn't capable of managing the country, The Great Leap Forward took the country back centuries, ruined the economy (not that there was any), and millions starved to death. It was horrendous. Then came the Cultural Revolution, which cemented him and his party stronger in the political circles. It wasn't until after reforms by Deng Hsiao Ping that China rose from that state of stupor and hopelessness. She needed to open up to the world, and let foreign ideas, goods, methods into the Bamboo Curtain, which stagnated with pre-WW2 technology. Mao is a thing of the past, China needs to move on.

Cheers!

Re: Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: People’s Dai

Things like LGBT and Gay marriages will also be wrong after we see the effect in half a century's time. The effect will not be immediate. I hope Barrack Obama will still be around to see it. See how he destroys the world without using any nukes.

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No. It is a timely reminder that a strong state and leadership representing the interests of the working class are essential to balancing the corruptive influence of the bourgeoisie. Representatives of the bourgeoisie should never be allowed to absolute control over the factors of production. They are a necessary evil, a force of nature that must be allowed to coexist with the state and the proleteriat.

Re: Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: People’s Dai

Years of communists/PAP propaganda also destroy the minds and souls of the people.

Same can be applied to Singapore.

Didn't Cow Khor said one third of Singaporeans are schizophrenic?

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harimau said:

Years of communists/PAP propaganda also destroy the minds and souls of the people.

Same can be applied to Singapore ...

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rubbish! ...

ah loonz gang has never made n wil never make any mistakes ...

Re: Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: People’s Dai

Not only Cultural Revolution, the whole Communist ideology is wrong. It will never work. Now China is only Communist by name but is actually crooks running the show.

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Devil Within said:

Not only Cultural Revolution, the whole Communist ideology is wrong. It will never work. Now China is only Communist by name but is actually crooks running the show.

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China is actually a great example of a bad Capitalist system. Where the few controls the most wealth.

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Digs at Cultural Revolution :p
http://www.thechinabeat.org/?cat=153

Nothing Can Stand without Destruction
Wang Hongwen went to see Marshal Zhu De, requesting him to hand over power.
“You may take over, but only if you can make this egg stand upright,” Zhu said, while handling him an egg.

After trying for several days, Wang was still unable to make it stand, so he went to see Deng Xiaoping for help.

“This is easy,” said Deng, and he forcefully smashed the egg down into the table.
“Ai ya, it broke!” Wang exclaimed.

“Chairman Mao has said, ‘nothing can stand without destruction,’” said Deng, “look, isn’t the egg standing upright now?”

Translator’s notes: The phrase “nothing can stand without destruction” was a revolutionary slogan that encouraged destruction of old, feudal things.
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The Color of the Sun
A woman poet had to do physical labor while being investigated for her reactionary words and deeds.
One day, after working in the fields, she wrote in her diary the phrase, “The golden-yellow sun casts forth its brilliant rays…”

The diary was discovered by the Red Guards and became new evidence of her “venomous slander against our Great Leader.”
The Red Guards organized a struggle meeting to criticize her at which they said: “Chairman Mao is the Reddest, Reddest sun in our hearts,
but you dared to say that the sun is golden and yellow!

What’s gold? Gold is the stuff of the capitalist class. As for yellow, it represents decadent and dirty things! If this isn’t an attempt to
humiliate and vilify Chairman Mao, then what is?!”

Translator’s note: The color yellow is used to denote pornographic literature or matters, much the way in English we might use
“blue” or “red” (as in a “red light” district.) In Chinese, that would be a “yellow district.”

Re: Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: People’s Dai

Cultural revolution is the most stupidest things a civilization with 5,000 years of history Chinese has done.

It's a systemic destruction of minds soul and body. Worse than killing off someone. At least they can still keep their minds and soul.

Jiang qing one hell of a mental case. You married a stoopid woman your country is basically fucked up.

Can you see the parallels?

Re: Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: People’s Dai

With the exception of shanghainese, all mainlanders I know would have selective amnesia of Cultural Revolution and Mao's great leap forward. An outsider should never bring up these 2 subjects to those uncles or aunties who lived through those very painful years. And of course, the shanghainese are all fiercely critical of Communism and the man-made disasters it brought to the land.

Like Europe's fandango with Facism, Communism was China's fail political experiment. It's interesting that the author believes that the Chinese society has now "developed an antibody" against revolutionary upheavals. The 1989 tiananmen demonstration almost brought the country to its knees again had the tanks not rolled in.

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I once asked a former colleague from China what she think of Mao. Her reply was without Chairman Mao, there would be no New China. She was born in 1972, 4 years before the end of the Cultural Revolution. Growing up she must have heard a lot of stories about the madness brought about by the 10-year campaign from her parents and relatives. But no, to her Mao is still a great man. May be this is the reason why his giant portrait is still overlooking Tian An Men Square.

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The death toll from the Cultural Revolution was way smaller than the Great Leap Forward. The GLF caused approximately 40m deaths, the greatest famine and all because of totally misguided social and economic programme that was supposed to propel China into an advanced nation. All within two and half years. And Mao was demoted and made a figure head. The Cultural Revolution was devised by him to recapture power. It caused misery and more importantly set the country back another decade. It was not communism per se that killed a country but one man. To show his prowess as the man who led the legendary Long March, at the start of the Cultural Revolution at aged 72 he swam across the Yangtze. Thankfully they did not call it the long swim.

The Cultural Revolution carries more prominence as it involved high ranking officials and the elites while GLF impacted the peasants.

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Liquigas said:

I once asked a former colleague from China what she think of Mao. Her reply was without Chairman Mao, there would be no New China. She was born in 1972, 4 years before the end of the Cultural Revolution. Growing up she must have heard a lot of stories about the madness brought about by the 10-year campaign from her parents and relatives. But no, to her Mao is still a great man. May be this is the reason why his giant portrait is still overlooking Tian An Men Square.

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Is LKY a great man too? Of course he is.

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scroobal said:

The death toll from the Cultural Revolution was way smaller than the Great Leap Forward. The GLF caused approximately 40m deaths, the greatest famine and all because of totally misguided social and economic programme that was supposed to propel China into an advanced nation. All within two and half years. And Mao was demoted and made a figure head. The Cultural Revolution was devised by him to recapture power. It caused misery and more importantly set the country back another decade. It was not communism per se that killed a country but one man. To show his prowess as the man who led the legendary Long March, at the start of the Cultural Revolution at aged 72 he swam across the Yangtze. Thankfully they did not call it the long swim.

The Cultural Revolution carries more prominence as it involved high ranking officials and the elites while GLF impacted the peasants.

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Yes the Great Leap Forward is often confused with the Cultural Revolution by sinkie chinks. Just like they think the Yellow River and Yangtze are refering to the same river.

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Cultural revolution would not have happened if the Bastard bankrupt British empire did not cause massive damaged to Chinese drug trade in China door step. Forcing unequal trading drug trade opium to allowed opium in China and where they banned it in England are against world trade.

Blamed this cultural revolution on the bastard Bankrupt British empire.

Also cultural revolution in fact help the leader to forced opium trade out of China. The wealthy rich bastard Chinese were still smoking opium still sold by the British empire bastard drug traffickers and cultural revolution changed ALL that rid 100% of opium smoking Chinese.

This was the damaged that the British did to the Chines:

The British government poisoned the Chines people, stole huge quantities of sliver, and openly engaged upon imperialist aggression - as a result of which China fell into abyss of suffering. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out the Chinese people resistance againt imperialism and its running dogs, the opium ea and the acts of aggression that followed it awoke the Chinese people a desire for development and survival.

And thanks to the Chinese Communist Party that only socialism can saved and developed China that was destroyed by the British.

China without Mao wont C=change China as it is today to wipe out Westerners influences and their ever opium trade that they still refused to give up.

Fuck the bankrupt British empire bastards.

Patriot said:

[h=1]Cultural Revolution was wrong and it will never be allowed to recur: party mouthpiece breaks Chinese media silence over 50th anniversary[/h]


5 May 2016


China must learn from the mistakes of the Cultural Revolution and rally around the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece said as it broke the domestic *media’s silence surrounding the event’s 50th anniversary.

A People’s Daily editorial published on Tuesday offered reassurances that the party would not permit such a revolution to happen again, even as it warned against allowing discussions of the turmoil to be used to deny the party’s legitimacy.

Visit the SCMP’s comprehensive multimedia package on the Cultural Revolution

“History has spoken that the Cultural Revolution was wrongfully started by the leadership and used by counter-revolutionary clans. It was a serious catastrophe to the party, the country and people,” the editorial said, quoting the party’s official verdict on the event issued in 1981.

“The revolution is not, and could not, possibly be a revolution or social progress in any sense,” it said. “The mistakes of the Cultural Revolution will not be allowed again.”

The revolution lasted 10 years, but most of the violence – anarchic clashes and state-backed purges – occurred in its first 2½ years. According to the party, more than 1.72 million people died – topping the number of British and American deaths in the second world war.

China’s struggle to reflect, 50 years on from the Cultural Revolution

The Global Times editorial said the Chinese people had developed an “antibody” for the revolution and, and thus it surely would not happen again. “We said bye-bye to the Cultural Revolution long ago,” the editorial said. “Today, we can say one more time that the Cultural Revolution cannot and will not reoccur.”

Caixin carried an excerpt of the 1981 party document. “Building a socialist political system with high degree of democracy is one of the key missions of socialist *revolution,” it said, quoting the document.

“The fact that the mission was not attached with importance became an important condition under which the Cultural Revolution broke out. It is a bitter lesson.”
Toe the Communist Party’s red line on Cultural Revolution, state paper warns

People’s Daily said the nation must “firmly remember the historic lessons from the revolution, insist on the party’s verdict and *resist interference from the left and the right over the topic”.

The country was “closer to the goal of the great revival of the Chinese people than at any other point in its history”, the editorial said. The country should unite around Xi and the central leadership of the party, it added.

Click to expand...

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scroobal said:

The death toll from the Cultural Revolution was way smaller than the Great Leap Forward. ....

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True. But the shanghainese (and the country's more affluent today) would regard the CR as a bigger crime. It killed off the more talented people in the people's republic - including artists and intellectuals. They blame the CR for setting the country back by 20 years.

The country side folks (aka peasants) would tend to take a different view of the CR because it allowed the rest of the country to be as fucked up as them.

Mainlanders' opinions of Mao (and Communism) differ according to demographics