Comment by foobarian
5 months ago
Curious that education is valued so much, but then there are cycles of uprisings where educated people are targeted (Cambodia, Chairman Mao, ..)
5 months ago
Curious that education is valued so much, but then there are cycles of uprisings where educated people are targeted (Cambodia, Chairman Mao, ..)
As always the revolution starts from the competing elites. The culture revolution happened because CCP couldn't allow any form of alternative power centers.
It's a bit more complicated than that though.