The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society... the Little Red Book, which became a sacred text for Mao's personality cult,... damaged China's economy and traditional culture, with an estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to 20 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society

Marx's notion of communism is in this way radically individualistic.

Marx and Engels maintained that a communist society would have no need for the state as it exists in contemporary capitalist society.

Marx never clearly specified whether or not he thought a communist society would be just; other thinkers have speculated that he thought communism would transcend justice and create society without conflicts, thus, without the needs for rules of justice.

The Culture novels by Iain M Banks are centered on a communist post-scarcity economy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

Critique of Gramsci
The ideological apparatuses of the State

As conceptual criticism of cultural hegemony, the structuralist philosopher Louis Althusser presented the theory of the ideological state apparatus to describe the structure of complex relationships, among the different organs of the State, by which ideology is transmitted and disseminated to the populations of a society.[17] Althusser draws from the concepts of hegemony present in cultural hegemony, yet rejects the absolute historicism proposed by Gramsci. He argues that the ideological state apparatuses (ISA) are the sites of ideological conflict among the social classes of a society. That, in contrast to the repressive state apparatuses (RSA), such as the military and the police forces, the ISA exist as a plurality. While the ruling class in power can readily control the repressive state apparatuses, the ISA are both the sites and the stakes (the objects) of class struggle. Moreover, the ISA are not monolithic social entities, and are distributed throughout the society, as public and as private sites of continual class struggle.

In On the Reproduction of Capitalism (1968), Louis Althusser said that the ideological apparatuses of the State are... zones of society that comprise complex elements of ideologies of previous modes of production are sites of continual political activity in a society, which are

the religious ISA (the system of Churches)
the educational ISA (the systems of public and private schools),
the family ISA,
the legal ISA,
the political ISA (the political system, e.g. political parties),
the trade union ISA,
the communications ISA (press, radio, television, etc.)
the cultural ISA (literature, the arts, sport, etc.)

Althusser- parliamentary structures of the State- the "will of the people" is represented by elected delegates, are an ideological apparatus of the State... political system, itself, is an ideological apparatus, because it involves the "fiction, corresponding to a 'certain' reality, that the component parts of the [political] system, as well as the principle of its functioning, are based on the ideology of the 'freedom' and 'equality' of the individual voters and the 'free choice' of the people's representatives, by the individuals that 'make up' the people."

In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society — the beliefs and explanations, perceptions, values, and mores — so that the imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm;[1] the universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for every social class, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.[2] This Marxist analysis of how the ruling capitalist class (the bourgeoisie) establishes and maintains its control was originally developed by the Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci.

In 1968, Rudi Dutschke, a leader of the German student movement, the "68er-Bewegung", said that changing the bourgeois society of West Germany required a long march through the society's institutions, in order to identify and combat cultural hegemony.

Perhaps Foxy and Joe Loudmouth want to continue "the long march through society's institutions" and create a culturally nihilistic world through communist hegemony.

Canem Malum,

You have no idea of my ideology.

You keep banging on about Marxism and communism
ad infinitum. My parents fled from communism.
Communists took over their country and occupied it
forcing my family to flee or end up in the gulags of
Siberia or dead like the rest of their family members.

My parents lost everything due to communism. Their country,
their family, everything they owned. So how on earth can
you even imagine that I would ever support any totalitarian
regime.

The rest of your comments you Sir can ... no never mind.
Not worth the effort. One request - please sit down and
give your mind a rest.

A rose by another name is still a rose.

Foxy said-

My parents lost everything due to communism. Their country,
their family, everything they owned.

Answer-

So why would you promote policies which would take from British Australian's everything they own?

Canem Malum,

And what policies are those?