The Cultural Revolution in China

Abstract

The extraordinary events of recent months in China have not unnaturally given rise to diverse interpretations, hopes, and fears. Fortune magazine, for example, headlines its cover story in the November issue, "Beset by failures, an aging Mao Tse-tung lashes out to save RED CHINA'S SINKING REVOLUTION," Both diagnosis and prognosis clearly reveal American capitalism's hopes and its increasingly insatiable appetite for new "responsibilities."

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