struggle session

plural struggle sessions

1. historicalA form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.

   Wang also delivered a sensational “August 7” speech at the Foreign Ministry in a Red Guard struggle session aimed at Ch’en Yi.

   1970, James Chieh Hsiung, Ideology and Practice: The Evolution of Chinese Communism, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333

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   On January 8, Zhou Enlai noted, “You and your friends have come to Zhongnanhai [Liu’s official residence] ... and dragged out Liu and Deng many times.¹²⁴ Yet after a break-in and 40-minute struggle session at his home in Zhongnanhai on January 3 and Wang’s public struggle session on January 6, Liu was granted what would be his last chance to see the chairman. At midnight, January 13, Mao sent his secretary in a nondescript auto to bring Liu to the Great Hall of the People for a talk.

   1998, Lowell Dittmer, Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84

2. broadlyfigurativelyA meeting in which people who disagree with a preferred ideology are humiliated or bullied.

   Look at K-12 indoctrination to see how the Woke Army is racializing every issue and turning classrooms into ideological indoctrination centers, and faculty and staff training into struggle sessions, […]

   2023, Asra Q. Nomani, Woke Army