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...next day, some 100,000 Red Guards poured into the Peking Workers' Athletic Hall for "A Rally for Thoroughly Criticizing Liu and Teng for Their Bourgeois Reactionary Lines." The youngsters boomed approval when speaker after speaker denounced Liu as "the Khrushchev of China," the "boss of the capitalist class," and warned that unless the Liu-Teng platforms were banished, "China itself might fade away." Clearly, the Guards were pressing for a showdown...
Whoever was responsible for the posters, Peking's press was pushing the revolutionary word on other fronts. Article after article claimed that a miraculous upsurge in industrial and agricultural production had been brought about by jettisoning all capitalist notions of expertise and turning instead to Mao-think. The New China News Agency reported that "China reaped the biggest grain crop in its history this year." (Western experts calculate a shortfall of 5,000,000 tons in the Chinese harvest for 1966.) The Agency also cited a "new leap forward" in iron and steel output as a result...
...Karl Marx actually was not so ill-disposed toward Christianity as might be supposed from his famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Garaudy argues that this condemnation must be understood as a response to the church's alliance with 19th century Europe's capitalist and authoritarian regimes. Marx and even Lenin, says Garaudy, were careful to distinguish the institutionalized church as they knew it from early Christianity, which was genuinely "revolutionary and democratic in spirit." Moreover, Marx acknowledged that Christianity had raised the right questions about man's alienation from society even...
...felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants and a chauffeur-driven limousine, and likes to screen her old movies for guests in the Mao villa. But there she was on stage, drawing noisy applause as she inveighed against such capitalist poisons as "rock 'n' roll, jazz, striptease, impressionism, symbolism, abstractionism, Fauvism and modernism...
...views on the West are variable. In Colosseum, he indulges in a prudish flight of fancy; as the poet broods on the ancient games, he also rather absurdly sees capitalist corruption symbolized amid the Roman ruins by "powdered pederasts," "urinating whores," and a "society lady" swooning with delight as a gigolo pulls off her nylon panties. Then again, he takes a good-humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged...