Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, in Harbin, Asian Communist delegates met to receive certain instructions from Moscow. One of the speakers was Li Lisan, Mao's old rival, and now presumed to be Red boss of Manchuria. Said Li ominously: "Some of our comrades in Asia have been in error . . . We must avoid at all costs the spread of nationalistic Communism in Asia. We cannot tolerate a Tito in Asia...
...pamphlet is a clear statement of the "soft" line which the Reds use in a "given historic phase,". i.e., until they are strong enough to use brass knuckles. China, says Mao, is still largely a "feudal" country. Before it can have its Communist revolution against the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie must first have its revolution against "feudalism." These two separate steps (which occurred centuries apart in Europe) can, in China, be blended into a continuous process. But the first step is not democracy in the Western sense: "The coming democratic republic of China should be nothing other than a democratic republic...
Because China needs industrial developing, Mao is ready to collaborate with small and medium capitalists. But bourgeois "diehards" are out. ("Goodness, do we not know what they would do with the destiny of our nation? . . .") Land must be "equalized," and capital "controlled." Warns Mao: "Whoever dares to turn in the opposite direction will . . . get his head broken against the wall. . . The sun of the new China appears on the horizon, we clap our hands and hail it. Raise your fists, new China will be ours...
...Ludovico statue was regarded as one of his poorer works. According to the gossipy Renaissance critic, Vasari, somebody once asked the 15th Century sculptor why he had made the saint look so stupid and clumsy, to which Donatello replied that it was all on purpose-he thought Ludovico must have been a sorry fellow to pass up the kingdom of Naples to become a monk...
That, says Fromm, is the real Oedipus complex-the rebellion of every son against patriarchal authority. It is rooted in "man's legitimate striving for freedom and independence." That striving, when thwarted, results in a "destructive passion" which must be suppressed. The suppression, in turn, often leads to neuroses in later life. Freud believed that the mother-son Oedipus complex was inevitable. Fromm thinks that there is a way to avoid the father-son Oedipus complex: let parents be less domineering, and let them have more respect for a child's rights...