Word: proletarian
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...published an editorial written by Marcus Raskin, evincing great concern that I seemed to think more Negroes should be in the armed forces (I do); and indicting me further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential initiative suffered accordingly...
...Liberation Army Daily's announcement in response to a call from Mao said as much: "Even though they [the Maoists] may be just a minority temporarily, we must support them without the slightest hesitation." The Maoists, in fact, have been a minority all along in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose excesses are opposed by a majority of Communist Party officials, bureaucrats, local and provincial commissars and apparatchiks, factory managers and often workers. The Maoist-dominated news agencies' own reports revealed flash points of "unprecedented strong resistance" last week all across China. In Sinkiang, the province that contains...
...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has all but destroyed the last vestiges of social order. In fact, Mao's "closest comrade in arms" and heir, Defense Minister Lin Piao, admitted via wall poster that "the entire country is now in a state of civil...
...battle for control of China spread through the nation's cities last week as two irregular armies squared off against each other. On one side swarmed the Red Guards, the teenage, slogan-drunk students turned loose upon the land by Mao Tse-tung to spearhead his fanatical Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Opposing them with increasing vehemence were urban workers, resentful of the Red Guards' noisy and disrespectful descent on their factories in the name of Mao-think. The workers were encouraged in their opposition by much of the Communist Party apparatus still loyal to China's President...
Even all that would hardly suffice to protect Liu if Mao had chosen to act quickly and decisively in a classic purge. But he did not, for Mao's purge is part and parcel of a far vaster dream that is contained in his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It is the romantic nostalgia of an aging revolutionary who wants to turn back the clock. Mao moved when he saw that China had begun to show signs of the same mellowing of aspirations, the same desire for material well-being above ideology, that to his horror he had watched overtake...