Word: maoists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking's propaganda mill has also been emphasizing Mao's writing to an almost hysterical degree. Mao-think is now drummed into schoolchildren starting at the age of seven. It could be preparation for the inevitable day when Mao the man is gone, and only the Maoist philosophy remains...
...think it must be emphasized that the success of the Maoist strategy in China must be explained in terms of the specific history of modern China and not in terms of vague generalities about underdeveloped countries in general. The political and military fragmentation of modern China, the whole phenomenon of "warlordism," the failure to carry out military reform even in those armies under firm government control played an enormous role in the ultimate success of Chinese Communist strategy...
Applying all this background to the present moment, I suggest we should not get too excited over Peking's vast blueprints for the onward course of the Maoist revolution. Some American commentators who really ought to know better have over-reacted to the visionary blueprint of world revolution put out by Lin Piao last Sep- tember in Peking (about the strangling of the world's advanced countries or "cities" from the underdeveloped countries or "countryside.") This was, I think, a re-assertion of faith, that the Chinese Communists own parochial example of rural-based revolution is the model...
...line of approach,' Fairbank proposes, "should seek to undermine the militancy" of the Chinese. He feels the U.S. could take advantage of several important factors, including the need of the Maoist regime to bolster national morale and the "accumulated fatigue of the revolution," by agreeing the China's admission...
...Incidental" was also an unfortunate word. I used it to indicate priorities. Your "Intellectual framework" seems to be Marxist-Maoist. From this point of view, social oppression is a phenomenon of certain types of economic organization (Feudal, Capitalist, etc.). To see racial discrimination as a category of economic oppression is to consider the Negro as an "incidental" victim of a system which cuts a far wider swath. This kind of thinking has typified the attitude of American Marxists for many years (see Richard Wright's introduction to Black Metropolis). Most SDS members, conversely, construe American "imperialism" as an outgrowth...