Abstract

IT would be absurd for a foreigner to pretend fully to understand the Chinese Cultural Revolution, but it may be useful to offer an attempt to translate its strange terminology into familiar language. What is the meaning of a party person in authority taking the capitalist road? How can class war persist when there are no owners of private property to exploit the workers? How can the leader of an established government proclaim that Rebellion is justified? What is the army doing in a triple alliance with the workers and the administration of a factory or a research institute? How does the thought of Mao Tse-tung make crops grow on a stony hill?

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