As the 50th anniversary of the Cultural
Revolution approaches some of the former students who participated in its Red
Guard terror have been trying to make amends to their victims. If China’s
former leftist fanatics feel some remorse for the atrocities they participated
in, the same can’t be said of their American counterparts. Even
as the Cultural Revolution was dying down in China, it flared up in the United States.
The Weather Underground drew inspiration from China’s Red Terror. Their
founding manifesto cited the Red Guard as a model for a “mass revolutionary
movement.”
Bill Ayers, among others, had signed a letter, “Long live
People’s China. Love live Comrade Mao.” The American
counterparts of China’s Red Guard remain largely unrepentant because here the
Cultural Revolution never ended. Instead it went mainstream. Its members were
never disavowed and their acts of terror continue to be celebrated and
whitewashed by a left that finds them alternately embarrassing and thrilling. ….To Read More
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