MLMRSG: Evaluating China’s Cultural Revolution and Its Legacy for the Future
Posted by Mike E on January 8, 2009
Evaluating the Cultural Revolution in China and its Legacy for the Future was written by the MLM Revolutionary Study Group in the U.S.
It describes the course of the Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976, its achievements and shortcomings, and argues that future movements for revolution, socialism and communism must stand on its shoulders.
Part 1: Seeding Machine for Revolution
Part 2: The Sweep of A Revolution, 1966-1976
Part 3: A Startling Theoretical Leap
Part 4: Radical Changes in Culture
Part 5: Deep Among the People
Part 6: The Winding Road
Part 7: Struggling to Liberate Women
Part 8: Conceptualizing Socialist Society
Part 9: Summing Up the Revolution
Available as Word doc: Evaluating the Cultural Revolution in China and its Legacy for the Future.
Kasama will soon post a printable pdf version as part of Kasama’s Documents for Discussion pamphlet series.
Harsh Thakor said
On the day of Com Mao’s 117th birthday today on December 26th,I wish to express my greetings on the Kasama project.Com Mao is the greatest revolutionary Marxist in the modern era who developed the teachings of Comrade Marx and Lenin.I congragulate this site for reproducing the wwritings of the MLMSRG which superbly illustrates the achievements of Com.Mao and the C.C.P in the cultural Revolution -be it education,literacy,revolutionsing production,heath ,agriculture ,the Peoples Liberation Army.The pictorial presentation is brilliant and such works can refute the bourgeois counter-revolutionary onslaught.They prove hat from 1956-1978 the Chineses State wa s the most morally democratic Society ever created,with achievements for the peasantry and working class unequalled.The ordinary peasant and worker producing such extraordinary innovations and the achievements of rural medicine applying Maoism ,were lke reading a classic.Even the Peoples Liberation Armry was the most pro-people or democratic army ever,always uniting with the opressed masses.
However one weakness of this work is that it misrepresents Mao’s International Proletraian Revolutionary line and virtually reduces the C.C.P.International line from 1955 -1978 as being class collaborationist.Com Mao never introduced the theory of 3 Worlds,it was a Dengist formula.Com Mao also never showedbias towards treating U.S.S S R as the graeter enemy and defended the International revolutionary struggles to his last breadth.Mao leading the C.C.P.to establish realtion swith U.S A werre only for tactaical purposes of recognizing the American State and not top compromise with re4volution.The black liberation struggle wa ssupported and but for the C.C.P.’s aid Vietnam would not have won the war against America.One of the most important polemics of the C.C.P was not to impose itself on other Communist Parties and struggles of the World and not to prematurely form a Communist International.It is the absence of Com Mao’s polemics is why there is such a setback in the International Communist Mpovement-be it Peru,beit Nepal.The R.I.M .is the best example.
I hope the M.L.M.R.S.G could work on reproducing the books or the Important excerpts of writers like William Hinton ,Felix Grene,Revi Alley and Edgar Snow.Possibly a compilation could be produced in the form of a book.