Word: proletarianism
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...history of modern China is being written these days in foot-high ideographs of pure vitriol, that shrill challenge was published last week over the name of Mao Tse-tung, the Red Emperor of China. The world indeed wiped its eyes in astonishment as Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, aimed at "purifying" Chinese Communism, erupted into strife and stridency so bitter that it produced widespread chaos and verged on civil war. The revolution that for 18 years has enchained China's 750 million people to Communism openly degenerated into a personal power struggle virtually unprecedented in history...
What the opponents of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution need these days is a stoutly enforced Post No Bills ordinance in Peking...
Ideological Defect. The burden of Liu's self-denunciation turned on his "lack of understanding" and "miscalculation" of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution-in other words, his opposition to Mao. Now, he said, "I have decided to submit faithfully to the regulations of the party and not to be of two minds in party matters." It all sounded definitively abject-the words of a vanquished...
Revolutions have a way of escaping their instigators, and there were signs last week that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose Red Guards have convulsed China for four months, might prove no exception. The freezing gales of winter swept through Peking, which is still swollen by an estimated 2,000,000 of the Red Guard youth who have been breaking windows and heads, renaming streets and chanting the lit any of Mao Tse-tung's narrow road to Socialist salvation. Over 100,000 of the Guards had the sniffles, or something more serious, from wearing only Mao-think...
...proletarian prince was even more amiable when De Gaulle took him and his Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, hunting in what was once the preserve of royalty. For the occasion, Kosygin had brought along a turtleneck sweater, a quilted jacket and his own Belgian-made Herstal over-and-under shotgun. Gromyko cut a different figure: gun in hand he tramped through the fields in business suit, grey fedora and dark topcoat. Still, he proved a good shot. In any case, the forests of De Gaulle's Rambouillet chateau are well stocked for just such occasions...