America is becoming more and more like Maoist China. That era included “struggle sessions.” I am not aware of this happening yet, outside of a university. But I fully expect to see them in the corporate realm, schools — and elsewhere — soon.
Denunciation rallies, also called struggle sessions, were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where people accused of being “class enemies” were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten and tortured by people they were close to. Usually conducted at the workplace, classrooms and auditoriums, “students were pitted against their teachers, friends and spouses were pressured to betray one another, [and] children were manipulated into exposing their parents”. Staging, scripts and agitators were prearranged by the Maoists to incite crowd support. The aim was to instill a crusading spirit among the crowd to promote the Maoist thought reform. These rallies were most popular in the mass campaigns immediately before and after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and during the Cultural Revolution. [Wikipedia]
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