Word: proletarianism
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Foremost in the Maoist junior league are the two daughters of Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the most strident voice in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Hsiao Li, in her late 20s, gained prominence a year ago when she led a Red Guard "investigation team" at Peking University. In the acid-tongued tradition of her mother, Hsiao Li described her alma mater as a "stale pond in which many wang-pa* grow." She is now chief of the editorial committee of the Liberation Army Daily, and the regime has confirmed her importance by listing her among "leading comrades...
Evil Wind. Less political-minded than the other proletarian princesses, but perhaps as prominent, is Lin Toutou, daughter of Marshall Lin Piao, Mao's top lieutenant and heir apparent. Her articles from the Air Force News, including an unusually emotional tribute to the late Air Force Commander Liu Ya-lou, are said to be prominently displayed under the glass plate on Marshal Lin's desk. Both the fatherly pride and the daughterly sentimentality are surprising-if ever so slight-touches of humanity in a country that has lately taken to warning its youth against "the evil wind...
West Berlin's Republican Club, a New Left citadel, charged that "the concept of proletarian internationalism has been subordinated by the top leadership of the Soviet Union to a strategy of stabilizing and maintaining their own dominant position." Says Tariq Ali, the Oxford-educated Pakistani who leads Britain's New Left: "What has been made clear in Czechoslovakia is that Marxist concepts are not being applied in the Soviet Union. If Moscow felt the need to intervene somewhere, it should have been in Viet...
What those instructions are has never been very clear, but Peking press, and radio in a series of lectures, told the people not to worry about puzzling them out. One editorial demanded obedience to the "proletarian headquarters, with Chairman Mao as the leader and Vice Chairman Lin Piao as the deputy leader." Their headquarters is "the one and sole leading center" for the nation. Another directive gave the army authority to deal with recalcitrant Red Guards "according to the laws of the state," reducing them virtually to the status of common criminals and counterrevolutionaries. The writing of posters and publishing...
...capital pledged "to be pupils of the workers, peasants and soldiers, and rapidly catch up with the hundreds of millions of revolutionary people now advancing with big strides." They admitted that not the Red Guards but "the workers, peasants and soldiers were the main force" in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in proletarian education. Worst of all, "Red Guards in many places expressed their determination to go to the rural areas, border areas, factories, mines and basic units in order to integrate themselves with the workers and peasants." That, in the current lexicon of China, is the Maoist version...