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Members of the league, who adopt a Trotskyite line on the importance of proletarian origins for a revolutionary movement, were continually ignored by the more ardent MPLA supporters. The criticism that those supporters, many of whom are Africans, were responding to was the Maoist criticism, that the MPLA cannot be supported because it is backed by the Soviet Union and will be used as an agent of "social imperialism...
...Maoist critique was the critique that Ahmed Issa, a Somali in the Graduate School of Education and an organizer of the program, seemed to address when he said, as the hall began to empty after 6 p.m., that "the question of revisionism" doesn't enter until the MPLA comes to power...
...domestic scene, China will no doubt continue to stress production without sacrificing revolutionary fervor. China's press, for example, has been filled recently with Maoist exhortations ?all distinct echoes from the radical rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution ?about the crucial importance of political education and the necessity to remain vigilant against "revisionist" ideas. Party officials take seriously the problem of retaining ideological purity and preventing the leadership from hardening into a "new class" of privileged bureaucrats. In recent weeks two high education officials, Tsinghua University Chief Lu Ping and Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin, have been angrily accused...
...poems, Chingkangshan Revisited, is a characteristically Maoist bit of revolutionary exhortation. "I have long aspired to reach for the clouds," Mao says, as he returns in his mind to the mountainous spot ("our old haunt") in Kiangsi province where his rural revolution got started. His visit reminds him of the vastness of humankind's potential...
...atmosphere turned briefly ominous. Teng in his toast sternly warned the Americans against being roundheeled with the Soviets on detente, which the Chinese regard as naive and a self-defeating attempt to appease imperialist Moscow. Mystifying the Americans, Teng summed up Peking's world outlook with a Maoist aphorism: "Our basic view is, there is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent." Less inscrutably, he added: "Rhetoric about detente cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war." Ford sat impassively through the diatribe, though he later reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to detente...