Shanghai Commune

Chinese history

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In Mao Zedong: The Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong
…immediately after setting up the Shanghai Commune, Mao asserted that the demand for the abolition of “heads” (leaders), which had been heard in their city, was “extreme anarchism” and “most reactionary”; in fact, he stated, there would “always be heads.” Communes, he added, were “too weak when it came to…
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