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Mao on Revisionism:

"The rise to power of revisionism means the rise to power of the bourgeoisie." – Mao Tse Tung.

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"If our children’s generation go in for revisionism and move towards their opposite, so that although they are still nominally have socialism it is fact capitalism, then our grandsons will certainly rise up in revolt....

and overthrow their fathers because the masses will not be satisfied"

"Since 1911, when the emperor was overthrown, a reactionary regime has not been able to hold China for long. If there is a Right-wing, anti-communist coup d’etat in China, then I am certain that those elements will not know a moment of peace....

It is very possible that they will be able to retain their dominance for a while. If the Right-wing seizes power, it will be able to use my words to retain power for a time. But the Left will use other quotations of mine, and organise themselves, and overthrow the Right-wing"

"According to my observation I would say that, not in all factories, nor in a overwhelming majority of factories, but in quite a large majority of cases the leadership is not in the hands of true Marxists, nor yet in the hands of the masses of the workers....

"In the past leadership of the factories was not devoid of good men; there were good men. Among the Party committee secretaries, assistant secretaries and committee members there: were good men....

There were good men among the branch secretaries. But they followed the old line of Liu Shao-chi (Liu Shaoqi). They were all for material incentives, they put profits in command and did not promote proletarian politics."

In 1975 Teng Hsiao-ping (Deng Xiaoping) circulated three policy documents among Party cadres. These contained proposals on the course of development to be taken by China and were an openly revisionist kind. Mao reacted strongly and said:

"What! Take the three directives as the key link. Stability and unity do not mean writing off class struggle; class struggle is the key link and everything else hinges on it."

Mao gave a very direct assessment of Teng’s (Deng's) political character:

"This person does not grasp class struggle; he has never referred to this key link. Still his theme of ’white cat, black cat’, making no distinction between imperialism and Marxism."

And:

"He does not understand Marxism-Leninism, he represents the capitalist class."

As it became obvious that Mao’s days were numbered, the revisionist elements in the CPC led by Teng (Deng) became bolder.

In April 1976 they organised a violent demonstration in Peking, ostensibly to commemorate Premier Zhou Enlai who had recently died, but in reality to attack Mao and his close comrades Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan and the proletarian line they upheld.

Teng (Deng) was dismissed from all his posts and a mass campaign to criticise his revisionist line was launched. It was around this time that Mao exclaimed to his comrades:

"You are making the socialist revolution, and yet you don’t know where the bourgeoisie is. It is right inside the Communist Party -those in power taking the capitalist road. The capitalist roaders are still on the capitalist road."

By June 1976 Mao’s health was deteriorating rapidly and he gave his last warning against revisionism:

"I have predicted that full-scale capitalist restoration may appear in China."

In September 1976 Comrade Mao died and a month later revisionist elements staged a coup d’etat in which the Four were unconstitutionally removed from their Party and State offices.

Within a year Teng (Deng) was back in leading positions and his revisionist line is now being implemented, although there has been and is mass opposition, including armed uprisings, from workers and peasants.

The final outcome of the revisionist seizure of state power in China remains to be seen.

(Published 1980)

Never forget class struggle.

Carry through the revolution to the end.

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