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...Mao Tse-tung to French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux...
MERELY gaining effective control over China's 800 million people -a population twice the size of the British Empire at its zenith-was an epic achievement. But Mao Tse-tung's ambitions did not stop there. A few months after his conversation with Malraux, Mao launched the cataclysmic Cultural Revolution. It was the climax, perhaps the final one, in what M.I.T. Sinologist Lucien Pye describes as an effort to remake completely "the thoughts and sentiments of a people who have already been molded by the oldest civilization on earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform...
...Assisted perhaps by Quotations from Chairman Mao, the Pakistanis seem to have invented a new kind of warfare. Under the title of "internal affair," they let loose a reign of terror on East Pakistan [June 21]. Injured, starving, cholera-ridden refugees have since poured into India...
...Allah." Jones' rhetoric about virile blacks v. effete whites proves his own point. Like the quotations of Chairman Mao, such talk is a form of political action, though hardly divine. The book does offer a savage vignette of blacks being harassed in a Newark courtroom as well as a snarling account of that city's 1967 riots set against a background of ethnic politics and official corruption. But mainly Jones pushes a distended version of black nationalism based on a fusion of black art, black politics and African spiritualism...
...European sense. "O Allah O Shango (rulers of our ancient cities) O Osiris, we will be closer to you from now on,'' he cries. Elsewhere he declares, "Do not talk Marx or Lenin or Trotsky when you speak of political thinkers. Abdel Rahman, Nkrumah, Sekoti Touré, Mao, Du-Bois, Fanon, Nyerere, Garvey, Lumumba, Malcolm, Guevara, Elijah, Abu Dekr will plot, have already plotted...