| | + | '''Rectification''' in [[communist]] thought is to "make right" imaginary [[crime]]s of [[Western]] [[capitalist]]s and and beneficiaries of so-called "white privilege", or to purge communist [[revolution]]aries of contaminate with [[individualism]]. Self-criticism and confession is forced either through [[torture]] of public shaming. While rectified [[Marxist]] revolutionaries may ostracized and exiled as punishment, there may be hope for rehabilitation through re-education and [[brainwashing]]; [[counter-revolution]]aries and non co-conspirators in leftwing lawlessness are forced to confess, giving alleged legal justification for [[capital punishment]] or other extreme measures, including victimizing a non-communist or non-[[leftist]]s family, friends, and co-workers with the same rectification measures up to and including [[murder]]. |
| | [[Image:Ft296nb15t 00003.jpg|right|300px|thumb|American communists and [[New Deal]]ers [[Philip Jaffe]], [[Owen Lattimore]], Agnes Jaffe, and [[Thomas Bisson]] with [[PLA]] founder Zhu De (also Chu Teh, center), in Yan'an, China, June 1937.<ref>Jaffe, Bisson, and Lattimore were all founding board members of the communist controlled ''[[Amerasia]]'' magazine.</ref>]] | | [[Image:Ft296nb15t 00003.jpg|right|300px|thumb|American communists and [[New Deal]]ers [[Philip Jaffe]], [[Owen Lattimore]], Agnes Jaffe, and [[Thomas Bisson]] with [[PLA]] founder Zhu De (also Chu Teh, center), in Yan'an, China, June 1937.<ref>Jaffe, Bisson, and Lattimore were all founding board members of the communist controlled ''[[Amerasia]]'' magazine.</ref>]] |