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Unquestionably, the castigations of Peach Mountain were related to the anti-Confucius, anti-Lin Piao campaign that has been unfolding in China during recent months (TIME, Feb. 18). But it also raised a larger question that has puzzled China watchers since the movement began: Just who is in charge...
...most baffling features of China's latest cultural revolution is the concerted ideological attack on the sayings and teachings of Confucius. Last week the posthumous drubbing of the ancient sage, whose name is frequently linked with that of the dead, disgraced former Defense Minister Lin Piao, continued unabated. New meetings of the masses denounced Confucius "and his like" as "buffoons who had a place only in the garbage of history." Lin was again condemned for "preaching the rubbish of Confucianism as part of his attempt to restore capitalism in China." It is almost as if the gentle philosopher were...
...many ways he is. And that late "bourgeois careerist, renegade and traitor" Lin Piao is far from being the only one to fall under his influence. As the mounting ideological attacks on the "four olds" (old thought, old culture, old customs and old habits) indicate, the traditional Confucian values have died hard in China and remain an obstacle to the success of Mao's revolution...
...typically arcane fashion, the campaign started with what seemed to be an academic argument over the failings of Confucius. He was criticized in party publications for wanting to restore slavery in China 2,500 years ago. Then the campaign was broadened by linking Confucius to former Defense Minister Lin Piao who died after an anti-Mao coup attempt in 1971. Lin, like Confucius, was charged with trying to restore a discarded system, in his case capitalism. The campaign continued at a comparatively low level until last week, when it suddenly blossomed into a full-scale movement...
...first time in five years there were announcements of "mobilization rallies" of the masses to denounce the sins of China's two new "monsters and demons." A wall poster, charging Lin Piao with revisionist thinking, appeared on the docks in Shanghai, and for three nights running Peking television showed huge new screens being set up at Peking University; they obviously would soon carry their own slogans supporting the new campaign. For two days last week the entire front page of People's Daily was devoted to a formal announcement of "a mass movement initiated and personally...