Re: china

> >There is plenty of documentation of the progressive goals of the Cultural
> >Revolution, to check the "capitalist roaders" who wanted to overturn the
> >revolution.  There is also documentation of the factional fighting
> >within the CCP between Mao, supporters, and various rivals.  Both can
> >logically be true, they are not contradictory claims.
> 
> Cites?


Daubier, Jean.  1974.  A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
        Random/Vintage.

Collier, John and Elsie.  1973.  China's Socialist Revolution.  
        Monthly Review Press.

Anything by William Hinton, the agronomist.

These are all first-hand accounts.


> I did not say that. I just think that cold-bloodedly organizing university
> students into radical paramilitary groups and sending them against your
> ideological opponents, bringing the country near collapse, is a very poor
> policy -- both from the human rights standpoint and from the long-term
> economic standpoint.


I know of no evidence that the country was near collapse.  Raw economic
indicators show strong growth through the 1960s.  You continue to extract
the conflict from the battle over the future of the revolution.  It wasn't
one side "sending students against ideological opponents," it was a
two-sided struggle over basic policy and direction.


> The Cultural Revolution made people suffer for no good reason.

This is simply totally uninformed. Whether you support it or not, it
certainly wasn't "for no good reason."

RH