Did Mao Encourage Fanaticism in the Cultural Revolution? Is This Fanaticism What Defines It?

An explanation of whether violence and destruction is all there is to the Cultural Revolution or if something else is essential to it.

Links mentioned:
Han Dongping old video - https://www.c-span.org/video/?290017-1/the-unknown-cultural-revolution
Han Dongping new video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fQ8T5LmRq4&t=1s
Details of Project 571 - https://baike-baidu-com.translate.goog/item/%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%94%E4%B8%83%E4%B8%80%E2%80%9D%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B%E7%BA%AA%E8%A6%81/321357?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=zh-CN&_x_tr_pto=op,wapp

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:25 What the video seeks to do
01:54 What the Cultural Revolution is supposed to be
04:15 Overfocus on urban abu
06:45 Did Mao support fanaticism?
14:25 After the 9th Congress
16:09 Fanatical behaviour should not be used to condemn the Cultural Revolution as a whole
17:16 What the Cultural Revolution was positively defined by
19:47 Agriculture's recovery in the Cultural Revolution
22:05 Dilemma birthing the Cultural Revolution
23:53 Need to empower the peasants
25:34 Death of Lin Biao
31:00 Gang of Four
32:25 Criticise Confucius/War on Empiricism
34:20 Hua Guofeng gets Premiership instead of Deng Xiaoping
35:13 After Mao's death
36:48 Rise of hipsterish tendencies
38:00 Education in the Cultural Revolution prevented such tendencies in Mao's era
46:20 Outro

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