Description: OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS APPROX 2 1/2 INCH ENAMEL AND METAL PINBACK BUTTON - BADGE IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY NICE SHAPE. HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE. NOTE: The pin is missing from the back, but can easily be replaced. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR BUYING. RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS OR HAS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OR DEFECTS NOT VISIBLE IN THE PHOTOS OR OTHERWISE NOTED. I combine shipping charges on the purchase of multiple items. Please wait for or request an invoice with reduced shipping charges before paying. See end of listing for detailes. GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED. This Pin was issued and sold in China in 1968 (dated on the back) during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (aka Cultural Revolution), lasting from 1966 to 1971, which was launched by Chairman Mao Zedong to preserve Chinese communism and to re impose Mao Zedong Thought (Maoism). The pin has a profile bust of Mao and sunflowers uplifted toward Mao (representing the people following Mao). The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1971, launched by Mao, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as Maoism) as the dominant ideology in the PRC. The Revolution marked Mao's return to the central position of power in China after a period of less radical leadership to recover from the failures of the Great Leap Forward, which caused the Great Chinese Famine (1959–61). However, the Revolution failed to achieve its main goals. Launching the movement in May 1966 with the help of the Cultural Revolution Group, Mao charged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society with the aim of restoring capitalism. Mao called on young people to "bombard the headquarters", and proclaimed that "to rebel is justified". The youth responded by forming Red Guards and "rebel groups" around the country. A selection of Mao's sayings were compiled into the Little Red Book, which became a sacred text for Mao's personality cult. They held "denunciation rallies" against revisionists regularly, and grabbed power from local governments and CPC branches, eventually establishing the revolutionary committees in 1967. The committees often split into rival factions and became involved in armed fights known as 'violent struggles', to which the army had to be sent to restore order. Mao declared the Revolution over in 1969, but the Revolution's active phase would last until at least 1971, when Lin Biao, accused of a botched coup against Mao, fled and died in a plane crash. In 1972, the Gang of Four rose to power but were arrested in 1976 following Mao’s death. This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy ) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960s and Seventies (1970s). That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc. progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described. THIS IS MY HOBBY AND IS NOT A BUSINESS. THIS AND OTHER ITEMS I LIST ON EBAY ARE FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTIONS AND WERE NOT INITIALLY ACQUIRED BY ME FOR RESALE. PROCEEDS GO TO BUY OTHER STUFF I AM INTERESTED IN COLLECTING AT THIS MOMENT, AND THEREBY AMOUNTING TO A TRADE OF ITEMS. I HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME MEMBER OF A. P. I .C. (AMERICAN POLITICAL ITEMS COLLECTORS). IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER, YOU SHOULD CONSIDER JOINING. IT IS A GREAT ORGANIZATION! SHIPPING: ITEMS WILL BE SAFELY PACKED TO AVOID DAMAGE DURING SHIPPING. ITEMS ARE SHIPPED BY FIRST CLASS MAIL. SHIPPING TO DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES IS $5.50 OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, SHIPPING IS THROUGH EBAY'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. EBAY SETS THE TERMS AND CHARGES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST
Price: 4.95 USD
Location: Ojai, California
End Time: 2024-12-05T22:17:06.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.5 USD
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