Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preparation, Mao in May closed China's schools. Actually, the students kept on attending classes, but they studied only one subject: Mao's thought. With youth behind him, Mao was able to confront the Party Central Committee in early August with an ultimatum: vote for me, or else...
Conflicting Signs. A trademark of the Red Guards has become the "big-character" wall posters, which are old newspapers on which Guards proclaim new attacks on "revisionists," denounce party members for un-Mao-like behavior, and record news of Guard activities in other cities...
...past few days, the posters have become symptomatic of the chaos in China's cities. Some criticize the Red Guards. Others report clashes of Guards with workers and peasants. Some even demanded that Mao, who so far has let Lin do the talking at Red Guard rallies, take a greater role in the swirling events...
...example, last week began with editorials in People's Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help with the harvest...
...confusion-and the vio lence it was bound to provoke-represent a fissure within the top leadership? Perhaps. But the more likely explanation lay in the peculiar psychology of the Guards' creator. Years ago Mao reflected that a revolution is "not the same as inviting people to dinner or writing an essay or painting a picture. A brief reign of terror," he mused, was necessary to make a revolution work...