Word: commune
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Kou had been a carefree student, the son of a small landowner in Kwangtung Province's fertile Chungshan County. Then the farm was requisitioned to add to the giant Ku Cheang commune. Parents and children were marched off to different work barracks. With five other men and boys, Kou was assigned to a one-room...
Execution at 10. With a rifle butt, the militia commander prodded old Wong until he was satisfied that Wong really could not move. Then, on command, one soldier stepped forward, shot Wong through the head. As Kou and the other commune workers watched, the soldiers trussed Wong's wrists and ankles and slung him over a bamboo pole like a freshly slaughtered hog. All of a sudden, the workers began to chant: "We won't work! We won't work! We won't work...
...Purpose Boss. Ultimate goal of the urban commune organizers is the complete fusion of personal and working life. One of the first and most publicized of city communes was at the coal-mining center of Yangchuan in Shansi province. At Yangchuan. according to the Peking People's Daily, "living quarters were readjusted so that cadres, workers and their dependents are housed according to their pit, shifts, sections and teams." That done, "political, cultural and physical-culture activities were organized . . . Each person is a worker-soldier, as well as a student, whose living quarters are workshop, barracks and classroom...
...intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME'S cover (which asked: "Democracy or Dictatorship?"), a supergov-ernment called INRA has grown up-as such prerevolutionary institutions as Congress and the courts wither away -and has set up 485 commune-like farm cooperatives. For how Canada grew rich while Cuba took the path to economic chaos, see THE HEMISPHERE...