Word: maoisms
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Here are the diplomatic wives who abruptly favor baggy proletarian garb. Here are commonplace people who refuse to take medicine when they are sick; as the Miltons explain, "denial of the flesh" was the sole means of self-sacrifice demanded by Maoism. When the upheaval spreads fear among "rightists," many join ultraleftist factions in frantic overcompensation...
...vacuum of information we made certain assumptions about the Khmer Rouge that in retrospect, were illusory. Because the Khmer Rouge had ties with the Republic of China, it was assumed that the Khmer Rouge's policies and social programs would have affinities with Maoism. It was assumed that while the NLF was working at grass roots campaigns to reform land use and to set up village councils, the Khmer Rouge was working on similar projects in their own country. But most important of all, it was assumed that because the Khmer Rouge fought against the forces...
Then came Mao's Cultural Revolution. The churches that had been allowed to stay open were turned into workshops and warehouses, and a concerted campaign was mounted to convert the remaining religious Chinese -both Christian and non-Christian-to the fervor of Maoism. But pockets of ideological resistance seem to remain...
...Chinese have been successful where Japan was not. The Chinese have yet to attain the economic modernization they desire and future foreign contacts may well bring China a more western character. But China's success thus far in preserving its culture can be laid to the success of Maoism in stripping the country selectively of those traditional elements in its heritage that are incompatible with the regime's plans for China's future. Mao's disdain for the west and his maxim, "Let the past serve the present and let foreign things serve China," laid the framework in which modernization...
...scare stories about China that circulated in the '60s, especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...