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May 7th in history

by HC123

Today is the 39th anniversary of Mao's "May 7" Directive of 1966, which ordered that education be streamlined and proletarianized, with substantial components of industrial, agricultural, and military study, including physical labor. This program was, of course, quickly overturned by the capitalist counterrevolution, which put education back into the service of petty-bourgeois and bourgeois interests and closed schools in many rural areas.

May 7 was also "Radio Day" in the Soviet Union, a commemoration of the invention of radio communication by the Russian scientist Alexandr Popov. There is strong evidence that Popov was the first to use radio, but Marconi gets the credit in the West, where we are led to believe that Western European and Amerikan men are responsible for almost all of humynity's technical, scientific, and cultural progress.