cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24853237

Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After joining the revolution, it was slowly washed, washed for several decades.

What I received before was all bourgeois education, and even some feudal education.

  • Mao Zedong
  • DessalinesOPA
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    12 days ago

    I’ve always heard it in the context of manchurian candidate 1950s-era mind control shenanigans, but it seems to predate that. Wouldn’t surprise me if it has to do with westerners historically hating washing.