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   UNITE! Info #270en: 6/7 H. Dicke on the Cultural Revolution - in 2006 vs in   
   1976-78   
   [Posted: 05-06.02.2007]   
      
   [Continued from part 5/7]   
      
      
      
   7. TWO MARXIST PUBLICATIONS FROM 1977 AND 1978, ON   
   HOW THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION WAS DEFEATED IN CHINA   
   THEN AND ON WHAT CONCLUSIONS SHOULD BE DRAWN   
   INTERNATIONALLY (ctd.)   
      
      
   PUBLICATION NO. 2 (ctd.)   
      
      
   III.   
      
      
   As an example of such a one-sided treatment we can cite the   
   following: Concerning the question of Teng Hsiao-ping it in   
   the decision of the Plenary Meeting of the CC is stated only:   
      
      
   "With their raging attacks, vilifications and false charges   
   against comrade Teng Hsiao-ping they (the 'Gang of Four') went   
   their own way, against the directives of Chairman Mao."   
      
      
   Nothing more is being said concerning this point.   
      
   This quote completely cuts off one part of the truth, which is   
   obvious to anyone who has followed the matters even if only in   
   an approximate way. It cuts off that part of the truth that it   
   was Chairman Mao himself who proposed that Teng Hsiao-ping   
   should be relieved of all posts inside and outside the Party   
   and that it was the entire Political Bureau of the Central   
   Committee, including comrade Hua Kuo-feng and all the other   
   members of the Political Bureau, who established as a fact   
   that it had come to the conclusion that in essence, the   
   question of Teng Hsiao-ping had already transformed itself   
   into an antagonistic contradiction.   
      
   In fact Chairman Mao combated both the revisionist deviation   
   of Teng Hsiao-ping and also the arch-reactionary ultra-   
   rightist 'Gang of Four'. That is why, under his leadership,   
   two decisions were reached. The first one, that of appointing   
   Hua Kuo-feng First Vice Chairman and President of the State   
   Council, and the second one, that of dismissing Teng Hsiao-   
   ping from all posts, in that well-known clear decision. That   
   is a very easily understandable and very clear fact, which one   
   must not permit to be done away with. The present statements   
   in China however all are passing over in silence the relation   
   between these two tendencies and are dealing only with one of   
   the sides.   
      
      
      
      
   IV.   
      
   The brilliant, clear, proletarian revolutionary political line   
   and internationalist political line of Chairman Mao is what   
   has fired the enthusiasm of the peoples of the whole world.   
   This line must be upheld. If it is no longer being upheld,   
   then we must criticize this. We are responsible to our masses   
   for this, if they ask us, how matters stand there, what we are   
   saying now on developments there. We cannot be silent on the   
   matters, since this would put the existence of any Marxist-   
   Leninist party, if it does not give a clear answer to it, at   
   stake.   
      
   In this respect, also a particular standard must be applied   
   concerning China. That country which under the leadership of   
   Chairman Mao experienced such a brilliant revolution in the   
   past decades very decidedly has put its imprint on world   
   history. But this precisely because it did fire the enthusiasm   
   of the peoples of all countries and through this grew to be a   
   great force in the world's history.   
      
   If there is as much as a slight swerve away from this, then   
   that must inevitably have large consequences as to the entire   
   international situation. Also for instance the present situa-   
   tion of the differentiation into three worlds, which has   
   corresponded to the objective situation of the last few years,   
   is not beyond being influenced by this, since China, with its   
   nearly 800 million people, houses a fourth of the entire   
   population of the third world. Through its consistent politi-   
   cal line, the People's Republic of China also has proved to be   
   a great pillar of support in the struggle against hegemonism,   
   colonialism, imperialism (including social-imperialism) and   
   racism.   
      
   In brief, only the political line of Chairman Mao is it that   
   interests the peoples. A political line that, as seen from the   
   outside, glues that line on to itself, or so to speak descends   
   from it in a so-called order of succession, is completely   
   unimportant to the peoples. In that there is no point. There   
   are some people at this time who are thinking that they so to   
   speak can now appropriate the outer shell of this and put it   
   to their own use. That is a quite enormous mistake. This we   
   will never accept, and we also are viewing these things in a   
   total context which we have been surmising even earlier, and   
   will inexorably expose and attack it, since a coalescing with   
   the 'KPD' is among the most essential things of all in this   
   new revisionism.   
      
      
      
   V.   
      
      
   What analysis did our Party have concerning this question.   
      
   On some matters, Teng Hsiao-ping opposed the ultra-rightist   
   views of the 'Gang of Four', who were connected with the most   
   extreme reaction, who had arch-reactionary, backward views and   
   such views that glued on to a backward level of production,   
   while Teng Hsiao-ping in this case rightly had modern views   
   and represented modern developments in some matters. Can it   
   from this fact be concluded that Teng Hsiao-ping was a van-   
   guard representative in the struggle against the 'Gang of   
   Four'?   
      
   In reality of course the truth is that both the rightist-   
   deviation of Teng Hsiao-ping and also the ultra-rightist views   
   of the 'Gang of Four' stand in sharp contradiction to Chairman   
   Mao's line and that precisely, the other way around, the many   
   reactionary views of Teng Hsiao-ping, his eclecticism for   
   instance, contributed towards creating a pretext for the   
   campaign engaged in by the 'Gang of Four', so that the 'Gang   
   of Four' used these things as a pretext for, on their part,   
   directing a thrust quite one-sidedly against Teng Hsiao-ping.   
      
   A person who has such faults can never be a great complete   
   vanguard representative but is, in his way, also a preparer of   
   the road for the 'Gang of Four', while in fact the line of   
   Chairman Mao is the correct line, which beats both of these   
   deviations.   
      
   The relationship between the criticized current of Teng Hsiao-   
   ping and that of the 'Gang of Four' is, according to our   
   Party's analysis, one of rivalry and collusion. Rivalry for   
   hegemony as to the current of the bourgeoisie, and collusion,   
   in part twisted collusion, which works out in such a way as to   
   split the proletariat, to divide the parties from one another   
   internationally, to cause in China a false view concerning the   
   two-line struggle in the international respect - in the course   
   of which process these contradictions inevitably had to   
   sharpen more and more, so that one day, both of these fighting   
   cocks had to start getting at each others' throats. We have so   
   far seen no reason to change this analysis.   
      
   *When Chairman Mao made such a profound decision against Teng   
      
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