Glossary
Stalin's way of preserving revolutionary vitality through repeated purges of enemies.
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continuous revolution
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...party? It was Mao Zedong, right? Because Mao Zedong believed in continuous revolution. He believed that the elite had a responsibility to serve the..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...party? It was Mao Zedong, right? Because Mao Zedong believed in continuous revolution. He believed that the elite had a responsibility to serve the..."
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Glossary
Jiang uses the term for Mao's insistence that elites must keep serving the people rather than settling into a parasitic ruling class.
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model
The Great Purge is framed as Stalin's continuous revolution: destroying old guard, army leadership, bureaucracy, and even previous purgers to keep power fluid and dependent on him.
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diagnosis
Jiang argues that Mao became the greatest threat the Communist Party faced over the past fifty to sixty years because Mao believed in continuous revolution and in an elite duty to serve rather than parasitize the people.
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"...party? It was Mao Zedong, right? Because Mao Zedong believed in continuous revolution. He believed that the elite had a responsibility to serve the..."
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"...what he did but they have stalin who is i'm the continuous revolution so the way that he maintains the the stability and the..."
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"...to 1938, there's something called the Great Purge, which is a continuous revolution. At this point in history. What Stalin will do is kill..."
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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