Word: proletarianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writer. He is currently study ing revolutionary operas in hopes of writing one himself. He is also rewriting some of his earlier works, which in clude a collection of tales for children that sold 210,000 copies, to portray his heroes and heroines in the proper proletarian manner. "Some of our work needs to he rewritten and repolished," he said. "The times keep progressing, and our thinking must keep progressing." Teng is familiar with the major Russian works of the Lenin and Stalin eras, as well as with such writers as Chekhov, Pushkin, Hemingway, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman...
...believes, with Mao, that "literature must serve proletarian politics...
...lack of concern for the social and economic issues that surround raw bigotry, and Archie's unbelievability. But such criticisms would be missing the point; such problems are not particular to All in the Family, but are a symptom of TV's general vacuity. All characters, whether bourgeois or proletarian, are stereotyped, and consequently become a kind of substitute reality in the minds of their audiences. Several years ago, when Jerry Mathers, the actor who played Beaver Cleaver, was rumored killed in Vietnam, people seemed almost more saddened than if their next-door neighbor had been a casualty. The cardboard...
Chairman Mao has said that "education must serve proletarian politics and be combined with productive labor." The extent to which this is now being practiced in China would startle most Westerners. TIME's Jerrold Schecter, who was allowed to stay on in China after the departure of President Nixon, paid a visit to Futan University in Shanghai and cabled this report...
...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...