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Habash's intensely doctrinaire movement has spawned several offshoots. Two splinter groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command, are more rabidly Maoist than Habash is; both have seats on Arafat's central committee. They and similar splinters badly disrupt the coordination of the group and sap the effectiveness of the guerrilla movement...
...Naxalbari revolt, only to have the Naxalites start another uprising 400 miles away in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh state. There, in 15 months of guerrilla warfare, 31 "class enemies" were cruelly executed. The Naxalites hung their victims' heads from poles, and used their blood to scrawl Maoist slogans. The uprising was finally brought under control by last spring, when 2,000 police were brought in and a land-reform and development program was started. Although the Srikakulam Naxalite leadership was wiped out-with 70 cadres killed-Naxalite groups had spread by then to eleven of India...
...special target of Naxalite violence has been the "bourgeois" universities. Deans' and professors' offices have been rifled. Libraries containing the works of Mahatma Gandhi are prime targets; the Maoist Naxalites consider Gandhi "the crystallization of revisionism...
...military in the wake of the catastrophic Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. When Mao launched the revolution in 1966, he hoped to smash the old order and build a new society that would rest partly on the army, partly on a reinvigorated party, and partly on a new generation of Maoist youth. But the rampaging Red Guards left China in such a shambles that Mao was forced to call in the troops, not only to restore order but also to administer the country. Now the army shows no readiness to surrender its political preeminence...
...does not see the contradiction. Such an honest self-appraisal is precisely the intersection the characters of China is Near seek to avoid. Vittorio, living in a mahogany palace discussing socialism, concerned with denting a new car in the same moment that he oversees Maoist slogans being painted on the wall-all these dichotomies that beg to be resolved are not resolved, and the final, apparent integration of the classes through marriage is facile and meaningless...