Word: proletarianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of constant upheaval for most of this century. They are desperately poor. They are alienated from the West. Having failed to wrest victory from Israel, they have become alarmingly dependent on Soviet military help. Yet the region is not sufficiently industrialized to support a classic, Russian-style proletarian uprising, and the illiterate, fatalistic fellahin of the villages are too conservative, too steeped in the concepts of familial loyalty and the Islamic faith to become conscripts in a Maoist peasant revolt...
Aside from the one-upmanship values of a trip to China, the joys of China travel are largely inscrutable. There are few of the usual tourist attractions that draw the average American globetrotter. Museums, closed in the confusion of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in many cases have yet to reopen, though Imperial Peking's excellent Palace Museum can be visited if special permission is obtained...
...thought, culture and customs that brought China to where we found her must disappear. The thought, customs and culture of proletarian China, which does not yet exist, must appear...
WHEN the Great Proletarian Revolution burst over Communist China, Peking recalled all but one of its 42 ambassadors. The lone exception was Huang Hua, then Peking's man in Cairo. His dedication to Communism and his diplomatic acumen in directing China's relations with all of Africa and the Middle East had obviously earned the confidence and respect of China's leaders, even in a period when they were not inclined to trust many people...
...consumption and high investment behind a centralized and vertical power structure operating in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Karol indicates that, to justify this new position, Castro made several theoretical distortions, and abandoned his earlier anti-Stalinism and recognition that Cuba was not a proletarian revolution. Unfortunately Karol does not show why Fidel never adopted the Chinese model, one which he claims is more suited to Cuba. What was Fidel looking for by blindly returning to the fold of Russia's bloc...