Word: maoism
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...losses of recent history is that during the long reign of Mao Tse-tung China produced almost no literature worthy of its tradition. Good living writers were silenced. Bookstores carried mainly the sententious classics of Maoism. That great modern political upheaval, the Cultural Revolution, should have provided the raw material for a thousand creative volumes. It produced not a single novel, story, play or opera published in China. Indeed, were it not for Chen Jo-hsi's collection of poignant stories set in the China of the '60s and early '70s, it is very likely that...
...free expression of other, cognate, primitive urges. It is good to be sexually free; it is correspondingly good to be aggressive, intolerant, even murderous. Of course, certain inhibitions remain that move us to justify our atavistic urges in terms of myths or ideologies−Bakuninian anarchy, neo-Maoism, Palestinian liberation, what we will: they mostly add up to a mere vague blessing from the superego on the acts of the ego. We just want to have things our own way, and to hell with oppression, suppression, repression...
...been much more cautious than his Vice Premier about moving to erase the radical legacy of the Cultural Revolution. Some experts even speculate that the aim of Teng's campaign may be to discredit Maoism itself, or at least that part of the hagiology that is invoked by opponents of the push for modernization. Teng could start, according to some China analysts, by probing the extent of Mao's support in the last months of his life for the activities of his now discredited wife and her radical comrades...
...been torn down. Dozens of graceful arches have been destroyed. Whole neighborhoods have been bulldozed for broad, eerily empty avenues. The reasons once again have to do with the politics of totalitarianism. "Exalting deserts of tarmac" are required for those mass demonstrations in which the Chinese pay homage to Maoism...
...with some 125,000 quotations that illustrate their origins* and usage. Browsing through its 1,282 pages is like rummaging through a kind of verbal attic of folkways and attitudes that have shaped the language over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry earth dwellers) to "Nessie" (who lives in Loch Ness). Trade names like Levi's, Muzak, Nescafe and Jell-O have officially entered the English language...