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Published · transcript-backedJung Chang: prediction
29 Nov 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine
“Because this other person at the next criticism or self-criticism meetings could well say, "So-and-so had said this to me, and I hadn't reported to the party, therefore I'm guilty.”
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- Jung Chang
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- 29 Nov 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah. It's a device that really separates society, making people against each other and being on guard against each other. Earlier you were talking about why can't people get together? Because this other person at the next criticism or self-criticism meetings could well say, "So-and-so had said this to me, and I hadn't reported to the party, therefore I'm guilty. " Talk about the way in which it forced good people to be immoral. You have these quota systems where if you're in charge of a department or something, the Mao says 5% are rightists, 5% are capitalist roaders. And so if you don't give 5% of names who are capitalists, who are going to get denounced, then you must be a rightist yourself. Talk about that aspect of the system.…
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