Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mao and his heir-apparent, Lin Piao, pushed the resolution though the Central Committee last December 15. Fists and possibly knives and guns have crashed back into Chinese history this week because Mao and Lin have decided to give the Cultural Revolution some muscle as it hits the countryside. The muscle is provided by the "Red Rebel Workers," a post-adolescent version of the youthful Red Guards who have been pushing the cultural Revolution in the cities since summer. The Red Rebel Workers are factory hands, union men, who have been judged untainted by the technical, urban, non-ideological values...
Judging from their stated aims, Mao Lin have shed few tears over the violence. The possible damage to the economy isn't so important to them. "What is the use of economic development if it only leads to capitalism?" a crucial New Year's newspaper editorial asked. Once the Cultural Revolution has everyone in tune with the interests of the peasants and workers, the work can go been criticized: In the long run, Mao argues, a socialist economy with a firm ideological base will surpass, any capitalist economy. the Russians have succumbed to the short-run lures of capitalism...
...provincial leaders don't see it this way, and neither do two of the nation's leading administrators, Chou En-lai, number three in the politburo, and Tao Chu, number for. Both were considered middle men the summer when Mao and Lin attacked the principle opponents of the Cultural Revolution. But now the opponents, led by President Liu Shao-chi, have possibly backed out of the picture, leaving Chou and Tao leaning dangerously on the wrong side of the fence. The two men want to keep the bureaucracy functioning and the leadership together, but they are in trouble. Mao...
...government ministries are Chou's responsibility; the ministries would probably prefer to concentrate on the country's rice and steel quotas. But Mao and Lin's watchers, following events like soap opera devotees, wonder if Chou will be able to prevail up on Mao and Lin to soften the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the provincial chiefs and his own bureaucrats...
...doubt that Mao and Lin can force some concessions from the stubborn provincials. The two leaders still appear to have the army on the side. Military personnel made up the majority of the 100,000 officials assigned to handle accommodations for the Red Guards coming in and out of Peking since this summer. Military officers probably also helped the organization of the Red. Rebel workers...