These days, a popular wechat group said a few words: You don't know your money is small til you're in Shanghai, you don't know your position is low til you're in Beijing, you don't know the cultural revolution is still ongoing til you're in the US.
It was not a full blown proletariat cultural revolution, but it did really erupt. A few days ago, people were joking about it, and few of them were serious. Since last Saturday's riots, more and more people no longer believe this is a joke. Regarding this subject, the author examines several aspects of American society, feels the pulse of the US Cultural Revolution, and has a deep understanding of this revolution. Now I will tell you some of the facts I have observed and tell you about this great proletarian cultural revolution that touches the soul.
- Large scale fights
One of the characteristics of the Cultural Revolution were the large masses of militant factions, and in America it is no better. This year in particular the US has seen more violence. For example, it happened in Berkeley's campus early this year, at a possibly corresponding scale:
(there follows a number of pictures and a description. The final picture is of the Chinese cultural revolution and is contrasted as being more delicate initially)
2 Courage to break 4 Old Things
When China began it's cultural revolution, the young smashed the "four olds", destroying monuments to the legacy of the emperor and Confucian temples, trashing Qufu (hometown of Confucius), thousands of ancient books were burnt, all of which demonstrated the revolutionary spirit of the young.
America's "Red Guard" have been no weaker. The day before yesterday, in a small town called Durham in North Carolina, the revolutionary masses pushed and destroyed a statue of a soldier during the Civil War.
The revolutionary masses spat, cursed, kicked and punched on the statue of the soldier. Next to a black artist playing revolutionary music, comrades cheered the great victory of the proletarian cultural revolution:
In light of the upswing in enthusiasm for cultural revolution, the New Orleans municipality unanimously adopted a resolution to remove their 4 confederate soldier statues. Here is a picture of New Orleans removing the statue of General Lee.
(more pictures and descriptions)
It is expected that the demolition of all the statues of Washington, the founder of the United States, will begin soon (translators note: wat). Also statues of Jefferson could soon be destroyed all over the United States due to his slaveholdings (the author seems excited by this). Moreover, the United States Declaration of independence and the constitution will be abolished because the author is a slave owner. If this can be tolerated, what can't not be tolerated!? A communist revolution could arise in the US and the West.
At present, the revolutionary situation in the United States is very good! Demolition, destruction, demolition of monuments or cultural relics; the breaking of the 4 olds is surging in popularity.
- Attention to Class Composition, "Birth Theory" (reference to genetics?) grows, Birth decides everything
In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, class composition is a hurdle that everyone can not escape. Your family composition, for example, if working class, lower-middle, revolutionary soldier or cadre can allow benefits for recruitment, promotion, Universities, etc. Everything will be smooth sailing. Whoever is born with a bad composition, such as the landlords, the capitalists, the right, the counter revolution, etc., will suffer for life.
The American cultural revolution also pays attention to family characteristics, especially race. Black and Mexican households receive preferential university admissions and lower test requirements. Whites and Asians do not belong to good categories and so receive no benefits. Because Asians are the most unlucky, some will say they are not Asian to escape discrimination.
(Some pictures of affirmative action)
- Workers, Peasants and Soldiers go to University
In the Chinese cultural revolution, a person named Zhang Tiesheng did a college entrance exam, but at the same time wrote a letter to Chairman Mao about his revolutionary course. As a result, he was admitted to the university!
In the US revolution, a muslim teen named Ziad Ahmed wrote a paper that was just "Black Lives Matter" 100 times (in Chinese BLM is translated as "Black Life Expensive) and was admitted to a top university.
This young man was born into a good category, with a high degree of ideological awareness, and dared to break away from all the old ideas, boldly using the test paper to shout revolutionary slogans. His dauntless revolutionary spirit touched the University, so he was granted admission! (the following sentence I cannot parse but appears to be praising and compares it to "YiDaiTianJiao")
Admission to US Universities has long been based on family of birth, along with the position of the candidates and their performance. In the future, the United States will fly in the direction of workers, peasants and College Students. This will provide a batch of high-quality talents for the socialist construction in the United States.
- Betrayer
In the Chinese cultural revolution, under the guidance of Chairman Mao, the revolutionary guard uncovered a batch of capitalists. One is the biggest traitor and spy, Liu Shaoji.
A few days ago, a revolutionary crowd in a city in Virginia started a spontaneous revolution. The headline of this article is about that. The affair revolves around an old general of the Civil War called Robert Lee (there follows a description of General Lee, from Wikipedia, explaining why he has many statues). (the author finds out from an 'expert' that Lee was a traitor to the US as he fought for the Confederates. He finds it fortunate that Lee died long ago, otherwise he would find the same fate as Liu Shaoji and be brutally murdered)
Removing the statue of the great traitor fits the revolutionary spirit!
but I'm a little curious: The Kremlin was Tsarist architecture but Lenin never removed it. Tiananmen was the architecture of the feudal emperor, symbolizing the brutality of the feudal society, and no one removed it. American revolutionaries, however, have removed many statues of General Lee. Is Lee even worse than the feudal emperor?
It seems the American Cultural Revolution is fierce!
Yesterday, one of the anti revolutionaries lamented:"Are we not more tolerant now in a democratic and free society than compared to when Lee's statue was erected 100 years ago? Why was the statue erected 100 years ago in the midst of blood feuds and war but now in the pursuit of a more tolerant society we want to remove it?"
There are many examples of the American Cultural Revolution, and they are very exciting. but space is limited and I had to cut some.
When I was a child, I witnessed the Cultural Revolution in China. Unexpectedly, now old, I see a cultural revolution once again in the US. It's a miserable state to see the "Black Five" return in the US, but still the revolution must go on.
At present, the revolutionary situation in the United States is great, not small. The climax of the revolution is coming. As for when this revolution will end, this is a common problem for many comrades. Marxist doctrine is not a fortune teller, and only describes future directions in broad swathes, but does not and should not set exact predictions. But what I call the climax of the American Revolution is not, as some people call it, an "empty" thing that may come as a "no action at all." It is like a ship on the coast overlooking the sea, like the mountain in the Far East which has seen the radiant splendor of the sun, it is a child about to be born moving restlessly in the womb.
Finally, we make a rallying cry: long live long live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, forever
