![]() Today’s wrongthinkers are, as then, anyone who disagrees with Communist Party dogma. As with Revolutionary China, they achieve the same objective: to eliminate wrongthinkers. In Clown World they have been reintroduced, under various guises, to workplace training and education. Struggle sessions were banned in China after Deng Xiaoping came to power. In reality, struggle sessions were used to destroy any and all enemies of the Communist Party. This was considered to be as much for their sake as anyone else’s, because a struggle session might prevent someone from being sent to a labour camp. These counter-revolutionary ideas put everyone at risk, and therefore they had to be driven out. The idea was that certain wrongthinkers harboured opinions that threatened the viability of the Revolution. The target of a struggle session would be subjected to ritualised public degradation for an extended time, with the intent of breaking them down and making them submissive towards the Communist Party. It is from Communism that Clown World has adopted struggle sessions.ĭuring the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Communist revolutionaries formalised their systems of humiliation and abuse into what were known as ‘struggle sessions’. ![]() From capitalism we have taken soulless, materialistic overconsumption and from Communism we have taken resentment-fuelled narratives of hate. Sometimes it feels as if Clown World takes the worst aspects of other political systems and combines them all into one infernal whole.
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