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Earlier Malraux had suggested that Mao Tse-tung's first question to Nixon would concern economic aid from the "richest nation in the world" to one of the poorest. It did not seem like a very plausible prediction about the proud foe of capitalism. But it fitted in with
Malraux's notion of Mao as expressed in his book. He reminded Malraux both of the old Chinese emperors and "the Old Man of the Mountain." Malraux saw him as a romantic revolutionary talking about the "Sons of the People," much as the old China talked of the "Son of Heaven," yet at the same time as a pragmatist ready to do anything for the greatness of China. "He seems to be struggling simultaneously against the United States, against Russia-and against China," wrote Malraux. As a believer in the revolution, Mao "is more anxious to make China than...
...What questions, and of whom? And what were the answer? If Mr. Nwafor was on a ten days' State Department tour of the United States studying racism would he be content, say, with seeing only Roy Wilkins and not talking to Huey Newton and Angela Davis? He assumes that Mao is right? Has he talked to any of the followers of Lin Piao or Liu Shao Chi? Was there comradely debate? Did he ask to read their documents? Yet he has seen the truth and the light...
...life and consciousness of the people. Yet the man who presided over it is today in disgrace. This is a contradiction which poses major challenges for the revolution. But one's reservation in fact goes beyond the facile tendency of Mr. Jago to explain these difficulties in personal terms: Mao vs. Liu Shao Chi or Mao vs. Lin Piso. It is not that I believe with Tolstoy that individuals are mere epiphenomena of historical events: if Napole on did not exist he would have had to be invented, much as Nietzsche said of God that if he did not exist...
...Chairman Mao," he observed, "teaches us that the main problem in teaching reform is the teachers...