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During China's latest ideological campaign, intended to discredit the ideas of the ancient sage Confucius and the reputation of former Defense Chief Lin Piao,* some of these commanders came in for stinging rebukes. At least five powerful army generals, including Li Te-sheng, the Politburo's sixth-ranking member, were attacked by name on radical wall posters for, among other things, "warlordism...
...campaign against Confucius and Lin Piao, which, according to People's Daily was "personally launched" by Mao Tse-tung, did more than just lower the status of the army. Although apparently intended by Mao to combat ideological backsliding, the campaign quickly became tangled in the question of succession. Chiang Ching and her radical cohorts, who had faded from view since their days of pre-eminence during the Cultural Revolution, seized on the campaign to enhance their own political positions. They used the confusing but time-honored Chinese tradition of attacking the living by drawing carefully worded analogies...
Since the anti-Lin Piao, anti-Confucius campaign was launched with great fanfare early this year, it has given rise to a number of puzzling events. First "revisionist" (i.e., vaguely anti-Maoist) operas were vigorously attacked, and members of the Politburo were criticized in wall posters. For several months it seemed that Premier Chou En-lai himself was under pressure from leftist factions in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Many observers were predicting that the campaign heralded some major new development-perhaps on the scale of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. In recent weeks, however, the mysterious...
...last week to a wall in downtown Peking by a number of workers who had journeyed from Hunan province. The letter complained of foot dragging in the five-month-old campaign to promote revolutionary fervor whose symbolic targets are 1) the ancient philosopher Confucius and 2) Defense Minister Lin Piao, who allegedly died in a mysterious plane crash in September 1971. The open letter and other hand-printed posters appearing on walls throughout the country are the latest indications of an intensified drive against moderate Chinese officials...
...very least, there were strong indications last week that the war of words and ideas was building toward a climax. Wall posters in Shanghai, long a center of radical activity, promised that the campaign directed at Confucius and former Defense Minister Lin Piao would soon turn to specific attacks on individuals and organizations throughout China...