My Favorite part of the book.... A Must read on how Cults work, and understanding how the MSM, Gov, etc.., Brainwashes the extremist's, and normies alike. The MSM/Leftest's want to call Trump/supporters a cult, LOL, does not even get close to all 8 criteria. The MSM/Leftest's Nail ALL 8 criteria square on the head...!!!
Robert J. Lifton, gifted Psychoanalyst of History. [add: 'Psychohistorian']
Lifton wrote some fantastic and still highly relevant books/articles about brainwashing, the multigenerational transmission of mass trauma to descendants, a huge, insightful biography of Mao, and more.
This is a study on how China subjugated a billion people.
Robert J. Lipton's 1961 book, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China
This is a excerpt from Chapter 22: Ideological Totalism
https://freedomofmind.com/robert-jay-liftons-eight-criteria-of-thought-reform-brainwashing-mind-control/
My Favorite part of the book.... A Must read on how Cults work, and understanding how the MSM, Gov, etc.., Brainwashes the extremist's, and normies alike. The MSM/Leftest's want to call Trump/supporters a cult, LOL, does not even get close to all 8 criteria. The MSM/Leftest's Nail ALL 8 criteria square on the head...!!!
Robert J. Lifton, gifted Psychoanalyst of History. [add: 'Psychohistorian']
Lifton wrote some fantastic and still highly relevant books/articles about brainwashing, the multigenerational transmission of mass trauma to descendants, a huge, insightful biography of Mao, and more.
Mao should have stayed a poet.