Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough, it cautioned that the opponents of Mao Tse-tung "are not dead tigers but living tigers ready to bite and eat people." Despite the Chinese love of hyperbole, Sinologists around the world last week agreed that the significance of such language can hardly be exaggerated: the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in trouble for months, is descending further and further into political and social chaos...
...final reckoning of the price paid for Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the damage done to China's educational system may prove the biggest-and longest-lasting-backward leap of all. Closing the schools for a year-so that 110 million students could be freed to "exchange revolutionary experiences," "smash" revisionist leaders and "struggle violently against" teachers suspected of harboring anti-Mao views-will mean the loss of two years of education before the school system is put back in running order. But this may be the least of China's troubles. For behind the scenes...
When the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution erupted inside China last year, neighboring nations were not exactly displeased. They hoped that Peking would be so busy coping at home that it would have little time or energy for troublemaking abroad. For a while that proved to be the case-but no longer. Last week Peking was quarreling with no fewer than eight of its neighbors, many of whom have been shaken in recent weeks by Maoist riots, threats and demonstrations-plus retaliatory action by their own citizens. Whether Peking consciously intended it or not, the contagion of the Cultural Revolution...
Third Act Coming. To Deutscher, the events of 1917 were but the first act of a continuing international revolutionary happening; the second act was the Chinese Communist takeover of 1948; and the curtain is about to rise on the third. The Russian Revolution really consisted of two revolutions, proletarian and bourgeois, merged into one. The proletariat was represented by the collective-minded industrial urban workers; the bourgeoisie, by economically individualistic peasants. The industrial workers were, of course, the revolutionary elite, "the chief agent of socialism." But in the famines and civil wars that raged into the 1920s, this industrial flower...
...when she first appeared before him in his youth. It is, he believes, her captors who are to blame. But in so often allowing emotion to obscure fact, myth to overwhelm reality, he only proves once more, alas, that no bourgeois gentleman can be as sentimental as a doctrinaire proletarian revolutionary...