Word: huang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong toward the end, what legacy did he leave? Mao thought, says Huang. "Mao Tse-tung's thought will remain the guide for our action for a long time to come. The history of contemporary China has proved that only Marxism, Leninism and Mao Tse-tung thought can save China...
...Huang's speech actually was delivered last November. Its significance as party dictum was demonstrated by the fact that it was suddenly reprinted last week by major newspapers all over the country, commencing, significantly, with the Liberation Army Daily...
...Huang is forthright about Mao's mistakes but he also asks for understanding. The Chairman's two main errors, says Huang, were that in his later years he was too impatient for quick results and that "he handled contradictions within the party like contradictions with the enemy, so that bad elements were able to take him in. This resulted in ten years of great disorder during the Cultural Revolution...
Tracing the Great Helmsman's decline, Huang explains: "In his later years, he ceased to be prudent. He had little direct contact with the day-to-day life of the masses, and his democratic style suffered." Injecting some bitter personal memories, Huang recalls that "as far back as 1958, I had already found that his brain was overly concentrated. The cerebral tension caused him to make mistakes. He had great, lofty aspirations and hoped to accomplish things in a few years that may take several hundred years...
...Huang softens his criticism by suggesting that responsibility for what went wrong should not rest solely with Mao. "If we impute all the mistakes committed by our party to Chairman Mao, this does not conform to historical facts. What Comrade Deng Xiaoping said is right: we old party members shared our merits in setting up a new China. Now it is unfair to shift all mistakes to one person, as though we have no responsibility...