Criticism of Liu Shao-Ch'i

Abstract

Abstract Although the political struggle which has accompanied the Cultural Revolution has involved large groupings of people, the Mao-Lin forces have chosen to identify the opposition primarily with the person of Chief of State Liu Shao-ch'i, whom they label "the number one person in power taking the capitalist road" or simply "China's Khrushchev." This pair of selections are representative of the complaints which have been made of Liu. The first was originally entitled "Thoroughly Smash Liu Shao-Ch'i's Counterrevolutionary Conspiracy: A Brief Comment on the 1956 Revised and Expanded Edition of How to Be a Good Communist." It was published by a group at Tsing-hua University in Ching-kang-shan, February 8, 1967. The second was entitled "Thoroughly Expose Liu Shaoch'i's Counterrevolutionary Revisionist Crimes in Political and Legal Work," and is said to have been based on materials of the Proletarian Revolutionaries of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. The article first appeared in the publication Cheng-fa kung-she [Politics and Law Commune] (Peking), April 16, 1967. It was attributed to "Hung-se Chien-ping" and "Hung-se Chien-tao."