hotair.com By Mark Judge
As I have been outlining on Hot air, we’re planning an Anti-Communist Film Festival in 2026. One of the communist disasters we will be discussing is China’s Cultural Revolution. We would like to show the short documentary Dreaming Against the World. It depicts the life of Mu Xin (1927-2011), a brilliant yet largely forgotten artist of the 20th century. Xin was imprisoned during China’s Cultural Revolution, Mu Xin risked his life to write and paint. Dreaming Against the World tells his story. The documentary portrait filmed on location in China and New York by filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello has been nominated for Academy Awards.
Taking place from 1966-1976, the Cultural Revolution was the doing of China’s “Great Helmsman,” Mao Zedong (1893-1976), the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. After the failure of Mao’s economic Great Leap Forward, a program of agricultural collectivization that resulted in tens of millions of deaths, Mao saw the Cultural Revolution as a way to finally set things right. As Whittaker Chambers knew, communists always need a “totalizing solution” to the pain of life. “Our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road … so as to facilitate the consolidation and development of the socialist system,” Mao said in his “Sixteen Points” declaration of 1966…
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