The May 4th Movement was a Chinese anti-imperialist and nationalist movement that began on this day in 1919 when more than 4,000 unversity students took to the streets in protest of the Treaty of Versailles. These protests became a national and cultural movement that served as an inspiration for later left-wing movements.

On the afternoon of May 4th, over 4,000 students of Yenching University, Peking University, and other schools marched from many points to gather in front of Tiananmen. They shouted slogans as "struggle for the sovereignty externally, get rid of the national traitors at home", "do away with the Twenty-One Demands", and "don't sign the Versailles Treaty".

The next day, students in Beijing as a whole went on strike and in the larger cities across China. Students, merchants, and workers joined the protests. The demonstrators appealed to the newspapers and sent representatives to carry the word across the country. In Shanghai, a general strike of merchants and workers took place, negatively impacting the economy.

The May Fourth Movement served as an intellectual turning point in China; it was a seminal event that radicalized Chinese philosophical thought. Western-style liberal democracy had previously had a degree of traction amongst Chinese intellectuals. Still, after the Versailles Treaty (which was viewed as a betrayal of China's interests), it lost much of its attractiveness. Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, despite being rooted in moralism, were also seen as Western-centric and hypocritical.

Many in the Chinese intellectual communities believed that the U.S. government had done little to convince the other nations during the Versailles negotiations to adhere to the Fourteen Points and observed that the United States had declined to join the League of Nations. As a result, they turned away from the Western liberal democratic model. The victory of the Russian October Revolution in 1917 gave direction to the development goals of the Chinese working class. Marxism began to take hold in Chinese intellectual thought, particularly among those already on the Left. During this time, that communism was studied seriously by some Chinese intellectuals such as Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao.

In the years that followed, many Chinese political thinkers turned to leftist politics in the wake of the political upheaval of the May 4th Movement. In 1939, Mao Zedong claimed that the May Fourth Movement was a stage leading toward the fulfillment of his own communist revolution.

The May Fourth Movement twenty years ago marked a new stage in China's bourgeois-democratic revolution against imperialism and feudalism. The cultural reform movement which grew out of the May Fourth Movement was only one of the manifestations of this revolution. With the growth and development of new social forces in that period, a powerful camp made its appearance in the bourgeois-democratic revolution, a camp consisting of the working class, the student masses and the new national bourgeoisie. Around the time of the May Fourth Movement, hundreds of thousands of students courageously took their place in the van. In these respects the May Fourth Movement went a step beyond the Revolution of 1911

-- Mao Zedong

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  • Shitbird [any]
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    4 years ago

    whenever i see a response from someone on this site that’s too long and difficult to read, it almost turns out they’re also an asshole.

    I kinda think it might just be the same weird spiteful pervert signing up with alts because the writing style is pretty distinct and terrible.

    This isn’t me shitting on effort posts btw. Those are cool and most are readable.

    edit: the weird spiteful pervert showed up lol

        • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Write. Rewrite. It's too long. Rewrite. Oops, It's even longer now. I hope that's okay and what the formatting rules? This sentence is unneeded overkill.

      • RobertGoddard [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Oh man this is fucking hilarious, man.

        i used to be an onion reader of DA, but stopped a long time ago (it got too cheesy) but man, it's good to see there are still a handful of people out there that are on the shit, as if all of you are.

        xD The comment cracks me up, too, man.

        'Nuff said.

        Ok, so, I just tried to comment (even though I shouldn't) on the story about the exploding guy in the mall, and when I tried to click the "comment" button it said "You're not a registered user on chapo anymore."

        And I was like, "dude, it's been like a month and this is the shit that greets me?"

        I hope I am still in the system.

        So yeah, I really liked the story, I was laughing the whole time!

        Haha

        WTF dude?

        why have I not been getting comments on my stories lately?

        Surely I must be famous now.

        xD Ah well.

        I hope I can get back to reading everybody else's wonderful posts soon.

        wow I never thought I'd actually get to read one of your stories (besides the obvious non - fics), wow...

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I remember one user that would make posts that always seemed like they were supposed to be comment replies deep into a heated argument, but no they'd just be weirdly aggressive posts arguing against people that weren't there. Always super hard to decipher and always vaguely inflammatory. I wonder if that's the same guy, pretty sure the one I'm thinking of got banned but you never know when they'll crop back up

        • RostislavAlexeyev [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Kurtz, who’s behind the operation, says that he’s only operating his Scissor stories about extreme crimes, not the ordinary kinds of crime that most people might call modern crimes. “It’s not ordinary crimes, like murdering somebody with a knife or running a child molester down with your car, that I’m after. It’s violence committed in the modern technological age. I’m not interested in stamping out petty crimes or political crime.” But I wonder if it’s a technical issue. This guy who wants to be president? A Scissor crimes story in the August 2008 issue would have sent people into a panic. As events began to shape up, though, they didn’t. So maybe the conspiracy theorist argument is a bit of an overreaction, but it’s plausible.

      • RobertGoddard [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        this is almost certainly not an asshole, but just someone who seems to enjoy the phenomenon.

        THE BOTTOM LINE:

        if you enjoyed the content and decide you can’t read my posts and the “reply” bit is too long, don’t read them, just comment. This is good for social interaction in general, not just about shitposting on some garbage website that thought it could challenge the order. Also, the “reply” bit was kinda cute and I thought the main post was cool (same aesthetics for posts, dunno what that was about).

        there are tens of other like-minded folks here. a few of the members are totally insane and those are also great people to hang out with.

        it’s nice to feel like there are a lot of people here who take the same pleasure in appreciating such little shitposts as me.

        again, completely uninterested in social interaction or arguments. I just really like making funny one liners that don’t make any sense. It’s nice to be part of a community like this.

        just... ignore these replies, if you don’t want to, and comment when you have something interesting to say.

        please, don’t come here to post dumb shitposts like this to try and stir shit up.

        this is a time waster and probably a way for them to get some exposure for their shitposts and egos.

        i have to go

        again, it’s kind of cute that these jerkoffs have created the forum that they obviously have so much disdain for and are doing so much work in killing it. notice how they call everyone “newb.” this isn’t a time waster because it actually does generate interest in Reddit. but its popularity has so far, been tied to trolling/poking and other general garbage. I’m telling you all this because it’s starting to make me a little sad to post these on the forum.

        this forum was only meant to be a small part of a group of social sites. we did actually have several people here who were of true substance. Most of the fun here was having the space to post really shitty jokes and then just look for responses.

        i was trying to put as much effort into making this as fun as possible for the people who enjoyed these threads as much as i did.

        I knew some of the individuals, but they were already fully-fledged people that enjoyed making shitposts.

        I made them into much of a “thing” as possible by surrounding the community with garbage and other bullshit, to drive traffic.

        it was sort of a horrible cycle but eventually got so big that the people who were coming here to post were just overwhelmed and they abandoned the site.

        This was a bad idea. The “other social sites” never really got off the ground because they were sucked into the server.

        As of two weeks ago, I deleted the main post and now it’s only one “reply”.

        WHAT THE FUCK, RANDOM/LAME SITES IS THIS MY REACTION TO ANONYMOUS ON US?!

        Because of how much space is being wasted here, I made a wall for those posts.

        It actually looks pretty nice.

        Well, that was only two weeks ago, so we still have three wall posts.

        I’m seeing the Flareup, and I see a lot of people here posting new threads with no context.

        But they’re still here.

        This is a waste of everyone’s time.

        Our internet is being wasted on this site, which is better off dead.

        I’m still reading it because it’s the first thing I see when I come to the front page.

        WHY DO YOU CONTINUE READING THIS SHIT!!!

        People have started to die at the mention of this name, one friend literally said “oh my god, i don’t want to go on this site.”

        I HOPE THE FBI HONEYPOT DEVS CAN FINALLY ATTRACT SOME MORE INNOCENT AND RESPECTABLE PEOPLE INTO THIS SITE.

        shitposts must be stopped.

        fuck off, i don’t want to be here anymore.

        This is a waste of space

        wow, someone came here to post a response to mine

        why dont you post your stupid shit in threads where people actually care?

        there have been a lot of original posts here lately, what’s going on?

        I don’t know what’s going on. I’ve been dealing with a ton of things.

        when are you going to post any more, or if you even have anything interesting to say?

        Hi I have no comment, I’m writing this to make fun of the time wasting forum, its just to much for me to continue to take part in.

        What the fuck is this? I had to scroll down for a while to even find what this was about.

        I wish we were a comment forum, but then I’d really be stuck to only 2-3 comments.

        it’s okay, just follow the little bit of text to the next board to get a funnier and more relevant idea

    • RobertGoddard [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I think it’s just the one weird fucker in ten who thinks they’re posting their shittiest shitty story on this forum, and won’t actually read it all and/or be offended if you like it.