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(as well as the first chapter of the book it was based on)
imo overall the part covered by the first episode is covered much stronger by the book. while the netflix series is nice it fumbles the exposition
also, something this youtube clip doesn't depict is the ensuing chill and horror of the crowd, which the crowd then proceeds to dismiss as just another thursday
The purpose of the “Hundred Flowers Campaign” was to make opponents come out in the open so they could be arrested and eliminated. The subsequent “rectification” campaign could not, in Mao’s words, be “gentle as a breeze or a summer rain for the enemies of the people.”
Even a propaganda centered on education cannot do without terror. In order to arrive at full compliance with propaganda, the 7 percent “incorrigible” individualists must be eliminated. The objective of Mao’s propaganda is a double one: to integrate individuals into the new body politic as deeply as possible, and, at the same time, to detach them from the old groups, such as the family or traditional village organizations. These groups must be disintegrated, always through action from within. For this there must be maximum conformity on the part of the individual.
Propaganda, Jacques Ellul
did you reply to the wrong person lol
My bad, meant to add context. The « rectification » campaign included struggle sessions as a tool of Maoist propaganda.