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...chaotic days of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, millions of youthful Red Guards were unleashed by Mao Tse-tung to scrub China clean of prerevolutionary ideas. Instead, the Red Guards nearly wrecked the country, and had to be suppressed by the army. Now Mao is turning to youth again. Apparently the Chairman feels that its energy-if carefully controlled by party cadres-can spur the dragging campaign to rid China of revisionist "poison" spread by Lin Piao, Mao's former heir apparent...
...date is significant. By 1934 the Japanese had invaded northeastern China and were preparing to launch a blitz-krieg on her major cities. Chiang Kai-Shek was already fighting the Communists. Mao Tse-tung was leading the Red Army on its 6000-miles Long March...
Therefore they, who had long been "much conditioned by their bourgeois background," were required, during and after the Cultural Revolution, to study Marxism, Leninism, and Mao Tse-tung Thought. How irrelevant and what a bore, some of them at first supposed. But they found that, even after only a first look at Mark's analysis of capitalist society and the class struggle, they were able to see in certain standard book new significance. After reading Lenin on revolution and imperialism, they could no longer teach the familiar material in the same old way, And when they had understood, Mao Tse...
...education in political thought. The big character posters were often directed against us, We had taught what we had been taught. That won't do! So we spent a lot of time with the students, going over materials and methods. We came to understand that sticking to Chairman Mao Tse-tung`s revolutionary line can enable one to solve very difficult problems, from this emphasis on self-criticism and self-reliance comes a united effort for the well-being of our socialist country...
...whether another Cultural Revolution will be needed in China? This depends on developments that we cannot yet foresee, Chairman Mao Tse-tung predicts more than one such revolution in future years. There's no doubt that another cultural revolution would, like this one, bring a big advance to the Chinese people...