This past May 16 was the date when Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution fifty-five years ago. In recent years, Xi Jinping has accelerated his dictatorship, and extreme leftist thinking is on the rise on the mainland, so many people are worried that Xi Jinping is preparing to launch a second Cultural Revolution.
Xi Jinping has taken Old Mao as his teacher, and he thinks he is the lord of his generation, but he is ideologically, spiritually and culturally different from Old Mao.
Old Mao launched the Cultural Revolution with two ideological roots, both derived from his character: first, he did not admit defeat, and second, he was ambitious.
Not admit defeat because at the end of the fifties he engaged in the general line, the Great Leap Forward, the People’s Commune “three red flags”, the Chinese tossed the people to the end of life, the early sixties starved to death 40 million people, the old Mao deadly gas “retired to the second line”, let Liu Shaoqi clean up the mess. Liu Shaoqi once said: starvation is to be on the history books, this sentence provoked the old Mao, “on the history books” means that the future history will give the old Mao an extremely negative evaluation. Lao Mao was a “hero of the world”, how could he allow the descendants of the Communist Party to treat him as a tyrant who scourged the country and the people and cursed him for generations? Therefore, he had to rehabilitate himself, overthrow Liu Shaoqi, take back the leadership and the right to interpret history.
But the Cultural Revolution was not only about overthrowing Liu Shaoqi, it was another big idea of Mao. He wanted to establish a new social system that would prevent the restoration of capitalism and prevent the CCP from becoming Soviet revisionist. Therefore, after the overthrow of Liu Shaoqi, the Cultural Revolution did not stop there. He further destroyed the governmental structure at all levels and established a “triple combination” of military cadres, local cadres and representatives of mass organizations. In other words, he invented a new form of government, bringing in civilian forces to jointly organize the government, thus preventing bureaucracy and corruption and “anti-revisionist and anti-revisionist”.
Old Mao was an arrogant man with unlimited political ambitions and historical aspirations. He led the Chinese Communist Party to fight and sit in the mountains, and his generation of pride was majestic, he did not study Marxism-Leninism in depth, but he was well read in Chinese texts, and he was familiar with the traditional Chinese strategy and the art of domination. He had a peasant style of seclusion and ignorance, but a peasant style of arrogance. He wanted to be the leader of the world revolution and to create a new form of regime in order to develop from socialism to communism.
He wanted not only to develop the economy, but also to reorganize the people, to make the country rich and the people selfless, so that China would be in a position to enter communism first, and China would become the spiritual home of all the peoples of the world, and he would become the third generation of the world communist leader after Marx and Lenin.
This is the reason why Mao overthrew the old government structure and established a new form of power at all costs, but also “destroyed” the culture and created the proletarian cultural puritan world with Jiang Qing’s eight model plays.
Xi Jinping is in a completely different era from Mao Zedong, and personally does not have the same great ambition as Mao Zedong, and does not have the supreme personal authority and personal charisma of the old Mao, Xi Jinping if he dares to mess up the country and let the Red Guards do whatever they want, chaos can be chaotic, and the result of chaos is an unmanageable situation, and the Chinese Communist Party is more quickly woeful.
Therefore, Xi Jinping may have the idea of the Second Cultural Revolution, but he definitely does not dare to engage in it, nor can he engage in it, as soon as he engages in it, he will bring himself down, and in the northern language, that is “to eat the whole thing.
At present, the Chinese Communist Party is in internal and external difficulties, and is worried about internal chaos, therefore, cultural tightening is the right way, and heavy-handed brainwashing is also reasonable. Forty years ago, when the reform and opening up was underway, in order to liven up the atmosphere and break the deadlock, the culture must be properly opened up, so at that time, pop songs, movies and TV and pop culture from Hong Kong and Taiwan flocked to the north, and later McDonald’s, KFC, Coke Disney, Hollywood NBA, as well as birthdays, Western weddings, Christmas celebrations, Western luxury goods and other American lifestyles, the ordinary Chinese people were all rushing to them.
The importation of American culture, which is close to human nature, has dismantled the Party’s education that the CCP has built up for decades and dissolved the CCP’s ability to resist Western spiritual culture, which is a major taboo for the CCP. Therefore, when the Chinese Communist Party becomes stronger and is forced to retreat to its own territory because of the obstruction of its foreign expansion, it is now a critical moment to build its own walls to resist the encroachment of external culture. The CCP will definitely use all means to prevent Chinese people from continuing to be influenced by Western culture, giving up their humanity, returning to their party nature, and being obedient in order to maintain CCP rule.
The Cultural Revolution in the true sense will not be repeated, but cultural dictatorship will sink in. In this regard, the tail-wagging dogs in Hong Kong have already “forewarned the ducks in the spring river”, textbooks have been changed, libraries have started to ban books, brainwashing has started since childhood, political censorship of film and television publications, and so on, all of which are the precursors of cultural prohibition.
But unless even the Internet is banned, or the “wall” is built in Hong Kong, it will not be easy for the Chinese Communist Party to brainwash our future generations as long as Hong Kong people do not obey the law and insist on our spiritual and cultural heritage.
Brainwashing and anti-brainwashing, being submissive or being ourselves, these are the questions we have to face.
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