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...well to remember all this in reading Robert J. Lifton's new book, Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The work attempts to formulate what Lifton calls a "psychohistorical" model of China's Cultural Revolution, the baffling internal convulsion which has kept China on the verge of anarchy since the summer of 1966. As social science, the book's contribution is uncertain. It suggests fruitful insights, but some of its observations verge on the obvious, and most are impossible to document...
Absurdes, ironiques ou amers, ces gribouillages sont des cris du coeur: "Je crie/J'ecris/#595 378 8222 bis de l'anonyme contrainte." On y trouve une haine de la societe urbanisee et dehumanisee, qui rappelle non seulement le ruralisme de Mao, mais celui de Rousseau, de Fourier, et de Proudhon: "L'economie est blesse, qu'elle creve." "Dessous les paves c'est la plage ..." Mepris des institutions democratiques ("Referendum -- voter sa chaine et son boulet."), anarchisme ("L'emancipation de l'homme sera totale ou ne sera pas."), foi en l'action directe ("L'aboutissement de toute pensee...
...litany of Liu's sins was reeled off at a meeting of the party's Central Committee late in October. Its expulsion of Liu was the highest-level purge in more than two years of merciless harassment of officials. When Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, Red Guards, recruited mainly from the closed-down schools and egged on by Madame Mao, Chiang Ching, succeeded in shaking the position of the entrenched party bosses. But the Guards got quickly out of hand. They began bloody battles with the more conservative workers and peasants and subdivided into...
Only Tried and True. In celebrating National Day last Oct. 1, the Mao leadership triumphantly declared "all-round victory" for the Cultural Revolution. The stage was thus set for the meeting of the Central Committee, at which Mao and his No. 2 man, Vice Chair-man Lin Piao, were reported to have made important speeches. The most immediate problem, according to the committee communique, is the job of "party consolidation and party building." The faithful Maoist press warned that this vital task cannot be left only to present party members-who might simply revert to the policies of Liu Shao...
Amidst the flotsam of rumors, one fascinating tidbit made the rounds in Washington last week. It was that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh was in Peking, presumably explaining to Mao Tse-tung & Co. the reasons for a shift in stance. It was perfectly clear that the Chinese were not at all happy about the prospect of a bombing pause if it involved the slightest concession on Hanoi's part...