The struggle session was a type of kangaroo court in Communist China in which an individual was coerced by members of the Communist Party and the community into confessing crimes.
An application of Marxist dialectic, the struggle session became notorious during the as a means of gaining political power and humiliating -- sometimes murdering -- one's personal enemies. Although these took place in great numbers all over China, all with the goal of uprooting the old order and replacing it with a new, purified socialism; in nearly every case the object achieved was petty and base.
The term refers to class struggle; ostensibly, the session is held to benefit the target, by eliminating all traces of counterrevolutionary, reactionary thinking.
The term for struggle session is thamzing .
Many who survived the Cultural Revolution tell their tales today; such stories bear a strong resemblance to one another.
Lately, the term "struggle session" has come to be applied to any scene where victims are publicly badgered to confess imaginary crimes under the pretext of self-criticism and rehabilitation.
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