Looks to me to be the treatment one recieves in a communist country after speaking the truth right before a bullet is put in the back of his skull.
Or maybe is a depiction of how the socialist communities like to blame the capitalists for all the world's problems by attempting to mock and overwhelm the capitalist with lies.
You're on the right track.
It's a pro-Cultural Revolution/ Gang of Four propaganda piece:
What's the upshot? Under Mao, the movement marginalized a major portion of the political power structure (in their case, the Communist Party- just not the right part of the Communist Party), and beginning in 1966, it was offical policy to purge intellectuals. This led to the consolidation of power for Chairman Mao and The Gang of Four.
WHen I was a child, my momma pointed out to me that as any totalitarian regime makes it's power play for consolidation, they
always purge intellectuals, sometimes more violently than others. It also doesn't matter if the power grab is by the Right or the Left. Think of the following revolutions and movements: The French Revolution under Robespierre, The Communist Revolution, European Fascism leading to WWII, Khmer Rouge, S. African Apartheid, etc. All purged intellectuals during the consolidation of power and afterward. Always on a pretext, and sometimes with ridicule, sometimes with prison and sometimes with murder.
Why? because they dissent and are dangerous to the regime.
What else is common to these movements? Terror and eventually withering economic and cultural stagnation.
So when there is a movement to limit free (dissident) speech by professors on college campuses, even odious speech, I get very alarmed.
Again, we (Americans) became the most powerful nation in the world by nurturing our academic dissedents, and preventing consolidation of power. This is not a coincidence.
This is way deeper than Right vs. Left. This is about power. When you guys spout the neocon anti-academic propaganda and there are movements to officially purge through ridicule or otherwise the dissident intellectuals, you have more in common with Chairman and Madame Mao than you think.
At least now you know where this leads. Don't expect a Thousand-Year Reich or a Worker's Paradise. Expect terror, at least for some, and economic stagnation.
