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Old 04-21-2012, 09:06 PM   #45
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There are a lot of things the CIA did in the name of anti communism that is just baffling today. Like the removal of President Arbenz of Guatemala after he stepped on the toes of the United Fruit Company (back in the 50s) or Reagan's secret funding of the contras in Nicaragua...

So back to the Cultural Revoultion....the effort seems to me to be a movement started by Mao Zedong to consolidate power. The purging of those deemed too capitalist was fanatical and disruptive. It seems to me to have been Zedong's play in a power struggle against more moderate Deng Xiaoping and and Lio Shaoqi.

And the more moderate version won out in the end. So what was good about the Cultural Revolution? That is what I'm asking.
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