Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of a general damping down of revolutionary chaos in the interests of getting the spring grain crop planted and the economy moving. But last week's youthful display indicates that Mao has changed his mind about any letup. Wall posters, in fact, reported that Chou and other Maoist officials publicly admitted that it has been a mistake to disband the Red Guards...
...rest of China has been subsiding toward some measure of normality, pro-and anti-Mao factions in Canton last week continued to fight the battles of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Radio Canton warned that local party officials opposing Mao were "increasingly more cunning, insidious and vicious." The Maoist Southern Daily shrilled that the "crucial moment" was at hand in the clash between Canton's "two classes, two roads and two lines in the cultural revolution...
...their roofs hung with red bulbs, cruised through the streets announcing the takeover, touching off a massive demonstration. It was the sort of mobilization of the masses that Mao's name can still conjure, as thousands milled about waving flags, beating drums, clanging cymbals and singing Maoist anthems...
...removed from power). Previously, the language used to describe the "guilty" was stern, but usually stopped short of hysterical. Furthermore, from the point of view of the victims, there was in most cases the possibility of "rehabilitation"--not Soviet style in which rehabilitation was posthumous, but rather the familiar Maoist style in which the accused would fade from the public scene for a few years and then emerge again with a new position of importance (though usually less important than previously). Finally, as is well known, the CCP has infrequently used the weapon of the purge among the top elite...
This paper has stressed the weaknesses of the present Party leadership in Peking. For reasons of space and because a number of writers (this one included) have discussed the many positive factors of the Maoist leadership, the picture painted here necessarily tends to give a somewhat unbalanced and negative appraisal of the present leaders. Yet it appears that the strengths of the leadership are now largely in the past and that future writings on China will have to face up to some of the basic shortcomings that have crept into the style and content of leadership as exercised...