HIS284H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Revolution, Political Class, Communist Party Of China
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1949 - the nationalist were totally defeated, they established themselves in. Liberated from 1) feudalism 2) capitalism 3) imperialism. Everything up to this point was thought to be feudal. China wasn"t actually feudal for a long period of time. Lenin - imperialism is the highest form of capitalism. Another county as the market and labour. Nationalists didn"t like them, but did collaborate with them. Almost 100 years of western colonialism and humiliation. The past is considered a burden, people wanted to distance themselves. Putting blame on capitalists, imperialism, japanese etc. Trying to tell their own stories and narrative. The constant theme in politics for a while. Part of a certain group (you"re a member of a certain unit because you work for a school or factory, for example) Assigned to a job after school, the system assumed that the system would work.
