Word: proletarianizing
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...woman wearing armbands with the three Chinese characters for ''revolutionaries.'' ''You are the class enemy of this house, guilty of conspiring with foreign powers,'' the man said. ''Do you deny it?'' ''Of course I deny it! Who are you? What do you want?'' ''We are the Proletarian Revolutionaries.'' ''I never heard of such a title,'' I said. ''You are going to hear a lot about us. We are the Revolutionaries who represent the working class, which is the ruling class in China.'' The man with the tinted spectacles assumed a severe tone of voice. ''Where have you hidden your gold...
...meeting about?'' I asked. ''There's no need to ask so many questions,'' the activist said. ''We would not be here if we did not have authority. All the former members of Shell have to attend this meeting. It's very important. Don't you know the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has started?'' The servants looked anxious as I left. We all knew that since Mao took over, innumerable people had left their homes during the political campaigns and never come back. At the technical school, the target of the meeting was Tao Feng, the former chief accountant...
...ignorant, we decided to give her a chance to realize her mistakes. After 6 1/2 years of education in the No. 1 Detention House, we observed a certain degree of improvement in her way of thinking and an attitude of repentance. We have, therefore, decided to show her proletarian magnanimity by allowing her to leave the detention house as a free person.'' He lifted his head and looked at me. ''Haven't you something to say? Aren't you grateful? Aren't you pleased that you can now leave as a free person?'' I tried my best to control...
...China. It was an arduous life, but she believed she was rendering service to her country and its people. Now, as she munched her sandwiches, she told me about the day's events at her film studio. ''I spent the whole day writing Big Character Posters for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We were told that the more one writes, the more revolutionary enthusiasm one demonstrates, so everybody wrote and wrote.'' ''Was that why you didn't come home for dinner?'' ''We gave up having lunch and dinner to show our revolutionary zeal. Actually everyone was hungry, but nobody wanted...
...Every Chinese should be proud of it.'' The young man whose revolutionary work I had interrupted said angrily, ''You shut up! These things belong to the old culture. They are the useless toys of the feudal emperors and the modern capitalist class and have no significance to us, the proletarian class. Our Great Leader Chairman Mao taught us, 'If we do not destroy, we cannot establish.' The old culture must be destroyed to make way for the new socialist culture.'' Pleading was not going to move the Red Guards. The time had come to try diplomacy. ''Please, Red Guards! Believe...