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...guns), and even China's productive labor is sometimes carried out in a manner resembling close-order drill. Whatever the occasion, there is one standardized piece of equipment for China's nearly 800 million people-a copy of the little red book containing Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
CHINA'S foreign relations are daily developing," said Defense Minister Lin Piao at this year's National Day celebrations. "We have friends all over the world." That was not an idle boast. Picking up the pieces of its shattered foreign relations in the wake of Mao Tse-tung's convulsive Cultural Revolution, Peking has mounted a skillful diplomatic offensive. Last week, after nearly two years of secret negotiations, Italy and China recognized each other and agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Only three weeks earlier, Peking had reached a similar agreement with Canada...
...death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could in fact view the entire Cultural Revolution as a demand for the renewal of Communist life. It is, in other words, a call for the resurrection of revolutionary immortality." Mao Tse-Tung, Lifton suggests, is the embodiment of revolutionary immortality, the aged man who renews his life in the Cultural Revolution. Thought, as an extension of his personality, finds new life in thousands of minds. The entire Chinese Communist movement, from the Long March to the Cultural Revolution, becomes for Lifton...
...undoubtedly far too soon to proclaim the end of the urban guerrillas in the U.S. Sooner or later, however, the terrorists themselves may pay closer heed to a lesson that their hero Mao Tse-tung could have taught them. "Guerrilla warfare must fail," Mao wrote, "if its political objectives do not coincide with the aspirations of the people and their sympathy, cooperation and assistance cannot be gained...
...spirit of anarchism: its fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence on absolute freedom (an illusion that in the past has invariably led to tyranny). Often their cult is pseudo-religious, even monastic: it is consecrated to a dead or distant deity like Che Guevara or Mao Tse-tung; its communicants gather in intimate, almost confessional cells: and they observe a ritual secrecy that eventually cuts them off from society altogether. Their ideologies differ, but in general their rationale is that "the system" is incapable of real change and that the official violence of the government (police, prisons, armies...