Kooglemoore

Hi Ann,

Thanks for posting. Can I ask where you participated in the CR? Was it limited to BJ? Was there a particular faction that you were associated with?

Other questions: the CR has since been denounced as a "Left" deviation. Do you see it as such? Broadly speaking, how do you feel about Deng Xiaoping's interpretation of Marxism and Maoism?

During the CR, the early red guards embraced the bloodline theory of Marxism, which held that class was inherited through the generations. This has since been forgotten by Marxist theorists. Was this an important part of your maturing as a Marxist?

At the end of the CR, some of the most populist red guard groups were denounced as rightist and crushed (for example, the Shengwulian, various quasi-liberal groups in BJ and TJ, the Shanghai Commune, etc.). What was your feeling watching this? Did you have a sense that the high water mark of the CR was passing?

Thank you so much for doing this. I encourage you to write your experiences down.

And that tops my worst...anything.

I'd add: What's your take on what really happened to Lin Biao?? Do you still have a soft spot for him? What about Liu Shaoqi?

Thank you for your answer. I wonder if you might be able to describe what participating meant? So far a lot of your answers are on the more general level, and consists mainly of information that is well known to anyone with an interest in the subject. But what makes you so unique is you were actually there!

With that in mind, I wonder if you could describe, in a way that makes it vivid, what a "Day in the Life of the CR" was? What were the different kinds of activities that fell into the broader category of "struggle"? What was considered controversial within the Red Guard? Were your days mostly spent studying Marxism, struggling counterrevolutionaries, writing big character posters?

On that note, what was your social life like? A hidden story of the CR is that these were a lot of young kids with a lot of hormones thrown together without adult supervision. I'm guessing there was no small degree of romance. What was Revolutionary romance and dating like?

Seriously. Here's a question for OP: Are you actually going to answer any goddam questions?