Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struggle, Pye said, will probably do great damage to the Chinese society and in the beginning it will probably manifest itself through intensified Maoist policies. It is inconceivable that anyone will be able to challenge the great Maoist tradition in the near future, Pye said, but this rigid period is not apt to be very extended...
There seems a fairly good chance that after the intensified Maoist period, China will adopt a new form of Communism to its varied culture, Pye said. It will be a Communism of a more relaxed nature, with greater decentralization and a better chance to be integrated with other countries, Pye added...
...generation" that is faced with the day-to-day problems of running the country. Mao and his men are out of touch with and unsympathetic to the younger generation of the party, and Mao has already groomed as his heirs-apparent men who will be dutiful preachers of the Maoist gospel. Among them are Party Doctrinal Elder Liu Shao-chi, Teng Hsiao-ping, the party's powerful secretary-general, and Lin Piao, the Defense Minister (see THE WORLD). Eventually, though, the younger generation is bound to rise to leadership, and the China experts hope-but it is only...
There was plenty of Maoist presence in the continuing purge of "pragmatic" intellectuals and administrators that began two weeks ago with the downfall of Poet-Scientist Kuo Mojo (TIME, May 13). Latest victim of the "rectification campaign" aimed at restoring rigid Mao-think is Teng To, a sometime litterateur and secretary of the Peking municipal party organization. Also missing from public view and mention: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, an upper-echelon Politburo member who was long regarded as a contender for Mao's chair when he dies. Peng's top adversary is Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Latest victim of Maoist "purism" is Poet Kuo Mojo, 74, longtime president of the Chinese Academy of Science. Kuo recently confessed that "strictly speaking, according to the standards of today, all that I have written should be burned." Other intellectuals who threaten Mao's pre-eminence as poet and philosopher have also come under attack, including Peking's Deputy Mayor Wu Han, who is China's leading historian. The official army newspaper chimed in against "antiParty elements [who are] responding to the great international anti-Chinese chorus of imperialists and various reactionaries to revive the Chinese reactionary...