Assuming we agree with the concept of Cultural Revolution. Does it make sense for a Revolutionary Party to start thinking about the nature of the CR early on, before taking power, or does it only makes sense to consider it once the whole country becomes revolutionary and that we can study the objective conditions on the new revolutionary society? I'm leaning towards the later, but then again, I am also under the impression that the former is possible (e.g. Black liberation movements in the US tried to do some version of CR) and that the earlier it starts being theorized, the better.
I tend to think that the cultural revolution is what starts the revolution proper. Could just be how my philosophy delineates cause and effect, of course. But I don't foresee a vanguard party taking power in america without a massive shift in culture happening first.
Though, of course, a revolutionary vanguard would, in turn, expand upon the cultural revolution as a necessary part of its work. I suppose they are two modes of revolution that are intertwined, and rely upon one another to exist.
Revolution is the goal, and a cultural revolution is both a necessary precondition, and a necessary goal, of that. It's a big of a chicken-or-the-egg scenario, but I agree that the sooner the seeds of a cultural revolution are sown, the better. And I believe that a true revolution depends on a cultural one. :red-fist: