thought reform

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thought reform

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uncountable Individual ideological indoctrination, especially that conducted in Communist China under Mao Zedong. Although working prisoners to exhaustion was apparently not part of thought reform procedures, hard labor is well known to have been utilized in prisons and concentration camps elsewhere.

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@misc{thought_reform_2026,
  title = {thought reform},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thought%20reform},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}