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For the tenth episode of our series about the revolutionary culture of the sixties, Andy talks to China scholar Ralf Ruckus about the Cultural Revolution in China, during which large factions of youth competed to renew and complete the revolutionary vision of Mao. The result was a seizure of power by the PLA and an estimated 2.8 million death between 1966-1976.
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Ralf Ruckus recently published The Left in China, an excerpt of which can be read here: http://illwill.com/mapping-the-left-in-china
He previously published The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China's (R)evolution since 1949
Other resources mentioned: Darren Byler - Terror Capitalism https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/monograph/book/97897
Chuang: https://chuangcn.org/about/
Gonggchao: https://www.gongchao.org/en/the-left-in-china/
China strike-map: https://maps.clb.org.hk/?i18n_language=en_US&map=1&startDate=2023-11&endDate=2024-05&eventId=&keyword=&addressId=&parentAddressId=&address=&parentAddress=&industry=&parentIndustry=&industryName=&pageEmbed=
Wu Yiching - Cultural Revolution from the Margins https://files.libcom.org/files/Yiching%20Wu-The%20Cultural%20Revolution%20at%20the%20Margins_%20Chinese%20Socialism%20in%20Crisis-Harvard%20University%20Press%20(2014).pdf
Telegram Link for Southwest ILC: https://t.me/+TNXgQOPkV18yOGRh
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