Anonymous ID: dbf7da Feb. 13, 2021, 11:40 p.m. No.12922149   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2862

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On a related note, here is NYT from 2013 glorifying and excusing the revival of Maoist Struggle Sessions in China.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/world/asia/china-revives-mao-era-self-criticism-but-this-kind-bruises-few-egos.amp.html

 

BEIJING — The 10 middle-aged officials who gathered in a nondescript government office in southwestern China last month were assigned a highly fraught mission: Highlight one another’s faults and confess any transgressions that might undermine the Communist Party’s credibility among the masses.

 

Officially, at least, nothing was off limits. Superiors could be criticized, a colleague’s affinity for expensive jewelry was fair game, and even voicing opposition to the central leadership’s policies was permitted.

 

The chief of the officials’ bureau spoke first, confessing that he was “a little hasty and might push others too hard,” recalled one attendee who asked not to be identified to avoid retribution. When it came time for the rest of those present to speak, each carefully imitated the chief’s innocuous critique in a pantomime of remorse that conveniently left everyone unscathed.

 

“There’s no guarantee what you say in the meeting won’t be used against you in the future, so the best way to avoid problems is to follow the leader,” the official explained afterward in a phone interview.