He elaborates that

• 1) most regions were deemed not ready for an RC and had provisional RCs instead where the PLA was granted military dictatorship, it wasn't until late 68 that most provinces got real RCs but
• 2) the three in one principle meant the PLA and Cadres had most of the power in these committees, especially the PLA for reasons he gets into, so even the regular regular RCs weren't that democratic. Only a few RCs had civilian chairs

They were meant to be transitionary like you said but in effect there was a years long s***ty provisional phase to get to a years long s***ty transitional phase which gave way to nothing else. Sure there was supposed to be more than the RC to live up to Paris Commune ethos but the RC is all that was there to judge.

I also have no idea what the ainting incident is so i can't speak on his treatment of that sorry you keep mentioning it

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yeah no worries that’s my biggest problem of the shanghai part in the book since it doesn’t mention it all basically summed up Workers (they would become the worker general headquarter) in a textile factory started making big character poster to criticize their treatment, went to the SMPC to talk to them, the SMPC tries to shut them down but fail and then fabricate a message from Zhou Enlai saying he’ll meet with the Workers in Bejing and then the SMPC split up the workers sent them to 5 different trains which would lead to 5 different locations and none of which were Bejing. The CCRG would send Zhao Chunqaio to investigate what happened and after he arrived he listened to the workers and pledged to help them. Omitting this from the story made it seem like Zhao just came in to take the glory of the Shanghai Commune. When he was their from day one and often helping and meditating between the rebel factions, even on the birth of the Shanghai Commune it almost fell into factional infighting if it wasn’t for Zhang saying that every organization would get a chance to be able to partake, it just these 20(?) are the founding orgs and rest will have a chance to join.

From what i got from the the book with him mentioning like Geng saying that Zhao is usurping the Shanghai Commune or the that one rebel faction that started doubting everything and went into to Zhao family history and found links to the KMT but not mentioning how they were resolved made it seem like these factions were correct in their view of Zhao. Geng would later be expelled when everyone noticed he was bombarding Zhao but was real quiet about the SMPC he ended up having connections with the SMPC like when he wanted more armbands but the GWK couldn’t afford to give him more cause the SMPC still controlled the money he went to them. and with the rebel faction that would doubt everything, “the doubt everything” line was pushed by the conservative faction of the CPC to make it harder to concentrate attacks against the bourgeoisie headquarters i know quite few of em would end up self critique.

On the doubt everything line being pushed by the conservative faction

Marshal Ye Jianying, a conservative in the army and one of the main players in the coup d’etat of 1976, also asserted that “it should be permitted for people to doubt, boldly doubt and doubt everything.

anting* incident i’ve been spelling it wrong the whole time …

Hmm he doesnt mention the Anting incident but he does mention workers being frustrated wjth attempts to meet Beijing officials (maybe the Anting incident was one of many similar episodes?), a December meeting where Zhang stated support with workers against local offifials, and an episode where Wang went to Beijing after the SMPC forged instructions from Zhou Enlai and Zhang told him not to support the SMPC motion which the WGHQ ended up supporting.

The overall picture of Zhang/the CCRG being cautious or moderate in their support of the red guards seems to track though.

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Everybody Ukraine brained rn so they don't wanna acknowledge the fact that they woulda been Nazis still if it wasn't for the Soviets

I saw so many Ukraine flags there bro it was insane lmao

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