Your family would be damned by the politically correct for the next three succeeding generations. Details about the extent of the 2020 staff revolt at the New York Times have been revealed in a new interview between Steven Krakauer and Shawn McCreesh. But usually your punishment was to be sent to the gulags. ROFL ‘I Was So Fcking Freaked Out’: Ex-NYT Staffer Describes ‘Crying’ and ‘Bloodthirsty’ Colleagues. The communist party god may forgive you, and let you go. Make sure you swear that you will never ever entertain a thought that is counter to the prevailing thoughts. Make sure you curse yourself and beg and please for forgiveness from the “proletariat” and the infallible communist party. Struggle sessions were a form of torture and public humiliation.
No matter the charge was laid and you were automatically guilty. Zedong used struggle sessions to enforce his new ideas for China. Or maybe you just ticked off the wrong person. Or maybe you didn’t make your quota on your work team. They came up with these charges because someone heard you complain that the government made mistakes. You would be subjected to “criticism/self criticism” time: they would criticize you and you were expected to agree with the mob and criticize yourself. They would scream at you that you were a “running dog of capitalism” or that you were an “imperialist” or that you were “rightist”. Of course your relatives and neighbors would join in, because they would not want to fall into disfavor with the politically correct mob. There you and others equally accused of imaginary crimes were screamed at (and beaten) by the Red Guard. If the Red Guard (the youthful fans of Chairman Mao who believed in his infallibility) thought that you were “counterrevolutionary” or that you were not radical enough, they would surround your house and drag you out into the town square. During the Cultural Revolution of Communist China (1966-1976), a favorite tactic of Mao’s fanatical followers was the “struggle session”.
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