Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife Jiang Qing used General Chen's mutiny as an excuse to unleash the Red Guards against "capitalist roaders" within the military. Commanders were dragged from their camps and publicly humiliated until Mao ordered a halt to the attacks. Belatedly, he realized that the army was the only stable institution in a nation threatened with anarchy...
...country in chaos, violence and dictatorial excess. Millions of Chinese, including nearly everyone who enjoyed a privileged status, were sent to "re-education camps" in the countryside, where they underwent humiliating rituals of "self-criticism." Political leaders who had been trying to modernize China's economy were branded "capitalist roaders" and in many cases were read out of the party and power. In the name of glorifying the "masses" and "bombarding the bourgeois headquarters," libraries were ransacked, factories and schools closed, and the country turned completely inward, virtually shutting off a billion people from the rest of the world...
...Anyi, then a senior manager in the Ministry of Petroleum, found himself a target because he had worked on Taiwan prior to choosing to return to the mainland shortly before the Communist takeover in 1949. "The Red Guards branded me as a big capitalist and an undercover ((Taiwan)) spy," Liu, 71, recalls with a wry smile. "They kept me in solitary confinement for over a year and later organized a pictorial exhibit of my crimes." These included photos of various articles of Western-style dress belonging to Liu and his wife that Red Guards had found in the course...
...capitalist scholar's response: "One dollar...
...spiritual and moral ethos of the U.S. These prominent Wasp bastions nurtured the founders, imparting to them notions of republican government and individual freedom. Dominating American Protestantism, these churches shaped virtually every aspect of an evolving nation: its pioneering colleges, its 19th century novels of sin and rectitude, its capitalist ethic of striving and saving, and a world-conquering spirit that was shared by missionaries and entrepreneurs alike. Mainliners were at the forefront of social crusades from independence to abolition, women's suffrage to Prohibition, civil rights to Viet Nam protests...