Did Mao Encourage Fanaticism in the Cultural Revolution? Is This Fanaticism What Defines It?

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An explanation of whether violence and destruction is all there is to the Cultural Revolution or if something else is essential to it.

Links mentioned:
Han Dongping old video - https://www.c-span.org/video/?290017-1/the-unknown-cultural-revolution
Han Dongping new video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fQ8T5LmRq4&t=1s
Details of Project 571 - https://baike-baidu-com.translate.goog/item/%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%94%E4%B8%83%E4%B8%80%E2%80%9D%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B%E7%BA%AA%E8%A6%81/321357?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=zh-CN&_x_tr_pto=op,wapp

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:25 What the video seeks to do
01:54 What the Cultural Revolution is supposed to be
04:15 Overfocus on urban abu
06:45 Did Mao support fanaticism?
14:25 After the 9th Congress
16:09 Fanatical behaviour should not be used to condemn the Cultural Revolution as a whole
17:16 What the Cultural Revolution was positively defined by
19:47 Agriculture's recovery in the Cultural Revolution
22:05 Dilemma birthing the Cultural Revolution
23:53 Need to empower the peasants
25:34 Death of Lin Biao
31:00 Gang of Four
32:25 Criticise Confucius/War on Empiricism
34:20 Hua Guofeng gets Premiership instead of Deng Xiaoping
35:13 After Mao's death
36:48 Rise of hipsterish tendencies
38:00 Education in the Cultural Revolution prevented such tendencies in Mao's era
46:20 Outro

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