Maoist Revolution Survivor Exposes Parallels Between China’s Cultural Revolution and Wokeism

Although communist China and America have different cultures, a Chinese Cultural Revolution survivor said that when the Maoist Cultural Revolution in China and what is happening in today’s America are put in a broader perspective, one can see commonalities between the two. The real goal of the woke revolution sweeping America today is “to change the [American] culture and to destroy everything [of] the past: the traditional value, the traditional family, the traditional institutions,” said Xi Van Fleet, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution, which began in China in 1966 and spanned the final decade of Mao’s life, aimed at destroying the so-called “four olds”—old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas—of China....