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The “Hate America Campaign.” That’s what the United Snakes State Department called China’s offensive to eradicate bourgeois ideology in the ranks of the educators.(1) Would that those reactionary goons have been correct.
The Chinese Communist Party’s struggle to ideologically re-educate the educators began before liberation in the areas under CCP control. After liberation this effort [...]
Shubel Morgan: On “On the Theory of the Productive Forces,” Part 5c
Shubel Morgan: On “On the Theory of the Productive Forces,” Part 5b
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In 1964, Chinese newspapers reported that … in major cities like Shanghai and Peking, and even in distant provinces such as Shensi and Shansi, numerous young people were going about with long hair, pointed shoes and tight trousers. … Other aspects of western culture also found favour with a section of Chinese youth at [...]
Shubel Morgan: On “On the Theory of the Productive Forces,” Part 5a
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From the video:
When China was socialist, many good Maoists made war on this imperialist lie (the theory of the productive forces). They understood that the lie of forgetting class struggle led back to capitalism.
They fought very hard. And their struggle remains a glorious inspiration for the world’s oppressed and exploited majority.
The Great Proletarian Cultural [...]
Shubel Morgan: On “On the Theory of the Productive Forces,” Part 4
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Here’s what we’ve got so far.
- In the early 1970’s, an international communist movement so mired in mistaking parasitic first world populations for class allies of the world proletariat that even otherwise genuine Maoists in China were committing the same deadly error.
- An international proletariat highly suspicious that in the 1970’s it was already [...]
Shubel Morgan: On “On the Theory of the Productive Forces,” Part 3
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Before publishing the video “On the Theory of the Productive Forces” we recommended some pertinent readings for optimal viewing pleasure. For this series of articles we’re adding to that list a work by Prairie Fire recently posted at MSH. The list:
Some notes on lines within the Chinese Communist Party in the Maoist period
The Lin [...]
Shubel Morgan: On “On the Theory of the Productive Forces,” Part 2
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Never forget class struggle!
The video under discussion, “On the Theory of the Productive Forces,” opens in stirring proclamation of this fundamental principle of Maoism. And our introductory anecdote describes incidents over 30 years ago in which Chinese communists and members of the new communist movement were unfortunately doing just that, forgetting class struggle by [...]
