Maoist China | The State is Counter Revolutionary (Part 3)

Описание: This video is the third in a four part series in which I inspect how the state has been a force of sabotage in the revolutionary process. In part 3, I recount the many projects that were carried out after the Chinese Revolution under Mao and demonstrate how the state prevented each of them from achieving radical worker control.

Part 1:    • What is the State? | The State is Counter-...  
Part 2:    • Leninist USSR | The State is Counter Revol...  
Part 4:    • "Left-Wing" Authoritarianism: An Infantile...  

There is a version of this video with music and visuals taken out, which can be listened to here:    • Maoist China | The State is Counter Revolu...  

The script for this entire series has been published to The Anarchist Library, along with full citations: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...

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Corrections:
Mao never went to France, though he had extensive interaction with Chinese exchange students who were visiting France at the time.

Citation:

Peter Kropotkin, "Are We Good Enough?" (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...)
Edgar Snow interviews with Mao Zedong
Scalpino and Yu, "The Chinese Anarchist Movement" (https://libcom.org/history/chinese-an...)
Chuang, "Sorghum and Steel" (http://chuangcn.org/journal/one/sorgh...)
Stephen Andors, "China’s Industrial Revolution: Politics, Planning and Management" (https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...)
Maurice Meisner, "Mao's China and After" (https://libcom.org/library/maos-china...)
Elizabeth Perry, "Shanghai Strike Wave of 1957" (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...)
Mah-Ki, "The People's Communes" (https://www.marxists.org/archive/clif...)
Xu Lizhi, "I Fall Sleep, Just Standing Like That" (https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxco...)