Monday, March 21, 2005

The Cultural Revolution


Have a look at Whiskey Bar's "Scenes from the Cultural Revolution," which lets the current conservative cabal speak for itself. Example:
I have undertaken the task of organizing conservative students myself and urging them to protest a situation that has become intolerable.
David Horowitz
The Campus Blacklist
April 18, 2003

Students on University campuses were organized into groups of “Red Guards” and were given the chance to challenge those in authority. Students quickly turned their attacks on their closest adversaries, their teachers and university administrators.
Therese Hoffman
The Chinese Cultural Revolution:
Autobiographical Accounts of a National Trauma
2001

There is more. Read it there.
(via Michael Bérubé)

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