Word: proletarianism
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...Chinese are steering a middle course between oppression by colonialism, capitalism and imperialism on he right and oppression by an elite of bureaucrats on the left," Wald said. "That's what the Cultural Revolution was all about--giving a literal meaning to the dictatorship of the proletarian...
PEKING looms as a summit wreathed in mystery and uncertainty-and not only because no one can predict its outcome with any certainty. China is still emerging from the throes of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and muffled convulsions continue in the highest reaches of the regime. Who, in fact, rules China? So far as is known, there is no vertical hierarchy, no line of succession. There is Chairman Mao, 78, the Chinese revolution's ever more remote deity. Then there is Premier Chou Enlai, 73, the government's chief-and almost only -public presence...
...presidency by his own protege, Liu Shao-chi, who championed work incentives and other "revisionist" economic innovations that were anathema to Mao. Isolated in the party chairmanship, Mao looked for a means of regaining power-and found the army. With Lin Piao, the army chief, he planned the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which would use the exuberance of the youthful, radical Red Guards to shake up the party-and shake out Liu and his group...
...something of this comes across in the interview. The Lin Piso episode, which in my discussions with Chinese officials I still found to be a very sensitive issue, is a case in point. In China today one hears a great deal about the veritable revolutionary transformation which the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has brought about in the life and consciousness of the people. Yet the man who presided over it is today in disgrace. This is a contradiction which poses major challenges for the revolution. But one's reservation in fact goes beyond the facile tendency of Mr. Jago...
...young man said he had held a factory job for more than seven years. His workmates had selected him to become a teacher, and the factory authorities and college administrators had given the necessary approval, he said. The major criterion for selection had been his sound "proletarian" political philosophy...