Word: proletarian
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Even before Mao Tse-tung unleashed the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Red China had managed to isolate itself from most of the world. The weird rampages of the Red Guards made the alienation virtually complete. As no other major nation in modern times, Red China stands alone, with other Communist countries possibly even more appalled by its actions than anyone else...
...been crammed with groups of excited students and teachers. They are crowding into the city's university halls and football stadiums, into railroad-station waiting rooms and public squares "to exchange revolutionary experiences" and listen to lectures on the means of spreading Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution across the land. Peking, in fact, has become a giant revolving revival meeting as tens of thousands have come to town, then, rearmed with Mao's think, have gone home, often accompanied by cadres of Peking students to ensure their continued doctrinal purity...
...deliberate choice of barbarism over civilization that Mao has made. Such a rejection of anything involving the intellect surely goes to show that only when the people are ignorant animals responding to a war cry as inarticulate as it is destructive can a movement like the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" gain any momentum...
...Guard terror who trickled out of China last week must have done a double take as they reached Hong Kong. There, queued up in Kowloon Station beside the mid-morning train to Canton were hundreds of Chinese waiting to go home. There were teen-age girls in distinctly non-proletarian blouses, old men in bourgeois pin-striped suits, and women whose arms were draped with heavy jackets in anticipation of the chilly Chinese autumn. The refugees-in-reverse were overseas Chinese from Indonesia, some 4,000 of whom have fled back to the mainland in recent months...
...with fanatical zeal or yield to creeping conservatism? Just as the French Revolution attempted to rejuvenate itself through successive waves of terror and the Stalin period of the Russian Revolution tried to find new inspiration through purges and mass hysteria, Mao is attempting the same thing through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But sheer will power, even when wielded by men as fanatically dedicated as Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao, rarely wins out over the historical thrust of a people and culture as strong as China's. The raucous voices of the Red Guards could well...