| | Rectification in [[Maoist]] thought is to "make right" imaginary [[crime]]s of [[Western]] [[capitalist]]s and to purge communist [[revolution]]aries contaminated with [[individualism]]. Self-criticism and confession is forced either through [[torture]] or public shaming. | | Rectification in [[Maoist]] thought is to "make right" imaginary [[crime]]s of [[Western]] [[capitalist]]s and to purge communist [[revolution]]aries contaminated with [[individualism]]. Self-criticism and confession is forced either through [[torture]] or public shaming. |
| − | While rectified [[Marxist]] revolutionaries may be exiled or canceled 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]]. | + | While rectified revolutionaries may be exiled or canceled 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]]. |
| | Rectification is aimed a purging society of dissenters of leftwing, communist, and establishing atheist [[totalitarian]] rule. | | Rectification is aimed a purging society of dissenters of leftwing, communist, and establishing atheist [[totalitarian]] rule. |