The East Is Red: a Cultural Revolution song

[adam13weishaupt]

Inspiring. But I expect that if you have to hear it over and over again, from dawn to night, week after week and year after year it might gradually become a little less inspiring.

[bxi48]

@pookerville

China in a mess today? You must be living in a cave this past few decades..

Every country has her own issues, being a foreigner doesn't make you an expert in Chinese history and Mao's ideologies by default. Although his miscalculation has indeed brought us great harm, his ideals are still noble and praiseworthy- something we don't see often in this materialistic world

[xxxdieselyyy2]

@bxi48 ------------>I do agree w/ u here. And to be frank, the Cultural Revolution was there to eradicate confuscianism and other forms of ethno nationalism and theocracy inspired nationalism out of China. If you wanted 2 make my country India into a modern, progressive, forward thinking unified state- u would have to waste 50-60 million ppl who favor caste, regionalism, theocracy etc. Nation building is hard, hard work- and should no b confused w/ economic building.

[stureremil1942]

@xxxdieselyyy2 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was to eliminate new bourgeoisie who grew from revisionists in party.

[TVgeinus90sSim]

@stureremil1942 Then those bourgeoise came back after Mao died and turned China into the superpower it is

[stureremil1942]

@TVgeinus90sSim Superpower? Super-exploitation!

[stureremil1942]

@AmersfoortTristan The most of European population live thanks exploiting of Third World. Visit LLCO site.

[stureremil1942]

@Harkiriay Bourgeois, reactionaries, revisionists were purged. Mao Tse-tung was the greatest leader in history. Your commentary in an insult for all progressive people.

[Zhonguoria]

Yes, I think "The East is Red" would make a great national anthem.

When I heard Yang Peiyi sing "Ode to the Motherland" I thought it might make a good one too. But this might be the stronger of the two.

[darkredyanderelord]

I love this song. one of the best songs ever :)

[MsDraculina707]

this song reminds me of the many hardships of china..

[SHUTUPNOOB654]

@8Q1Z7Z8Q Billions? China only has 1.3 billion people, son. And Stone Ages? He helped develop the cities, along with the fact that China's miltiary gained nuclear power.

[TheNovascotia2010]

the chineese revoultion in 1948 mao se tung had the army to fight the japaneese then when the war was over mainland china fell

[SHUTUPNOOB654]

@TheNovascotia2010 Wrong. Mainland China did not fall, and the Kuomintang AND the Communists BOTH fought the Japanese during 1937-1945. The Chinese revolution was in 1911 btw, and the Communists didn't exist when it happened.

[TuboEspectador]

I have this little record, a 45 rpm sized record that plays at 33.33. I love the melody, and I think that the singers really believed what they were sining. Better than March of the Volunteers. Both of these songs are wonderful music, wonderful sentiments. Too bad that China is going ultra capitalist and dangerously close to fascism.

[LeThoem]

@TuboEspectador

that's not true, China is still fighting for a communist future. It was necessary to open the market to make the country rich, otherwise, you can't establish communism. China will be a Socialist Democratic Country 2049 as the CP promises. And they do what they say...

[Swordman85]

@LeThoem

Are you really sure about that, comrade? I know a little about the Communism in China, I don't even know how to say communism in Chinese. I train wu shu, btw.

[BattousaiOfChaos]

@LeThoem

The Theory of Productive Forces is one of the most dangerous sorts of revisionism, "comrade". You should search google for Shubel Morgan's excellent writings on that. Long Live Comrade Stalin! Long Live Comrade Mao! Long Live Comrade Lin Biao! Long Live the Victory of People's War!

[AmersfoortTristan]

@LeThoem Then I wish them all the best in establishing that future. China is hardly communistic at the moment because it wasn't capitalistic for starters. You can't build communism or socialism in a mediaeval society. Which is what China was: a feudal society.

[stureremil1942]

@AmersfoortTristan Mao has built socialism in semi-feudal China after revolution. 

[HammerOfMao]

@LeThoem In retrospect, we know that the CCP was always rife with capitalist roaders and revisionists. At every turn they tried to undo Mao's policies. Hence the need for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution- to combat the new bourgeois class that emerged within the organs of power- the state bureaucracy and the Party. When Lin Biao was assassinated and the revisionists won out, China ceased to be socialist and headed towards capitalism. Now the C"C"P is just the new KMT in red robes.

[apocalypticmadman]

@HammerOfMao You tell the absolute truth

[Zhonguoria]

@TuboEspectador China may be ultra capitalist, but it isn't that what US Gov't has been pushing China to do for decades? Btw, China is NOT Fascist! President is elected by the party, whose representatives are elected by the people. Is there corruption? Perhaps, but no more than USA. Why should China become democratic when USA has never been democratic? US President is not elected by the people, but also by the party. Does the party represent American people? You decide!

[TuboEspectador]

@Zhonguoria Oh, so true! Every bit of what you said, haha!

[ComradeFlorian31]

@Zhonguoria What do you think of the Chinese New Left?

[DarkprinX2500]

@Zhonguoria that's true..even libya was more democratic than USA.. with their jamahrirya government

Long Live Red China !!

[ZLUGGO]

Their new national anthem is not as powerful as this one.

[SHUTUPNOOB654]

@ZLUGGO its not their ''new anthem''. it was switched to this 1, and then switched back to the other 1

[ZLUGGO]

@SHUTUPNOOB654

Thank you.

[mathpianist93]

@ZLUGGO: what is the new national anthem? 《义勇军进行曲 》was the original. the lyrics of the 华国锋 era, yes, cannot compare to this. 

[Galanhad]

@ZLUGGO euh, this one was never the anthem..

[MrOldMajor]

@Galanhad it was the de facto anthem during the cultural revolution

[Zadrii]

@ZLUGGO this was never their national anthem....

[TVgeinus90sSim]

@ZLUGGO If China wats a powerful anthem but without Mao Tse-Tung, they could just do what Russia did to the Soviet anthem ad drastically change the lyrics

[AtheismCentral]

@ZLUGGO

China's brought forth a mao Zedong!

[jobjed]

@ZLUGGO their "new" anthem came BEFORE this song... this song is not as old as their anthem. this is about praising chairman mao and communism while their anthem is about the survival of the chinese race during the massacres commited by the japs in the second sino-japanese war.

[MongolSwede]

@ZLUGGO the original Internationale was better than the anthem of the USSR, too.

[AtheismCentral]

@ZLUGGO

New? This was never the national anthem, this is the song for Chairman Mao Zedong, and his work for China, but the anthem of China has always been the march of the volunteers.

[belmany]

One day, the revolution will triumph the world over!

[oyama82]

long live china!