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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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Dangerous to comment just halfway into the video but man the credited quote readers list made me expect much more, the whole thing just feels very off, massive broad statements are made about state propaganda and censorship that are given no examples, and while the videos narrative is fairly exploratory towards Mao being "authoritarian" or "anti-authoritarian", it seems completely uncritical in repeating narratives about party establishments and "party elites" being primarily interested in maintaining their own power for powers sake, without giving a lot of grace to the perspective of "hey this could actually fucking collapse the whole country and leave us open to imperialism."
Edit: Finished the video and I feel pretty safe, this is far from "the full story", its pretty literally half the story, or even less, given that it centers so much around Mao on the side for the GPCR, and the forces opposing/restricting the GPCR are rendered as basically a blob that takes cynical and coldly intentional actions to sabotage it in the name of keeping power. While Mao by contrast is given a very large amount of grace in terms of how he didnt intend for violence to affect random teachers or descendants of landlords, it just happened anyways because of the way that he phrased things.
I mean shit like "The revisionist party officials, particularly those that Mao and his followers deemed to be corrupt, revisionist, or capitalist rotors(shitty subtitles misspelled roaders)" is just horrible biased writing for something like this.