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struggle session

struggle session noun: a form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.

Noun

struggle session (plural struggle sessions)

  1. (historical) A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
    • Wang also delivered a sensational “August 7” speech at the Foreign Ministry in a Red Guard struggle session aimed at Ch’en Yi.1970, James Chieh Hsiung, Ideology and Practice: The Evolution of Chinese Communism, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333
    • On January 8, Zhou Enlai noted, “You and your friends have come to Zhongnanhai [Liu’s official residence] ... and dragged out Liu and Deng many times.¹²⁴ Yet after a break-in and 40-minute struggle session at his home in Zhongnanhai on January 3 and Wang’s public struggle session on January 6, Liu...1998, Lowell Dittmer, Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A meeting in which people who disagree with a preferred ideology are humiliated or bullied.
    • Look at K-12 indoctrination to see how the Woke Army is racializing every issue and turning classrooms into ideological indoctrination centers, and faculty and staff training into struggle sessions, […]2023, Asra Q. Nomani, Woke Army

Forms of struggle session

pluralstruggle sessions

Origin of struggle session

Calque from Chinese 批鬥大會／批斗大会 (pīdòu dàhuì)

Questions about struggle session

What does struggle session mean?
Struggle session means a form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
What part of speech is struggle session?
Struggle session is a noun.
What is the plural of struggle session?
The plural of struggle session is struggle sessions.

Words near struggle session in the dictionary

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  10. struggled
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