A scientific evaluation of history must focus on the study of revolutionary movements. We must draw upon what is positive in these experiences and learn from the negative in order to advance beyond them.

Four great revolutions against capitalism have marked the forward thrust of humanity: the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR). Each revolution reflected the importance of the principal antagonisms between the capitalist class and the proletariat, or working class.

The struggle for state power is inseparable from the struggle between correct and incorrect ideas about how to win, keep, and consolidate it. This struggle is known as the struggle against revisionism—the ideas and practice of the class enemy within the communist movement. This struggle will continue until world communism is achieved and consolidated.

Right Opportunism: The Long Term Error of the Communist Movement

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THE WORKER / November 19, 1976

Mao Tse-Tung once warned us, at the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that the Communist Party of China had to be vigilant against revisionism, because, he said, it is possible for a Party to become fascist almost overnight. While being confused and confusing on many other matters, he couldn't have been more right on this one. Ask his wife.

Since the crushing of the GPCR with Mao's help China has been ruled by fascism. We've already explained our views on Mao, his wife, and her cohorts. They were "centrists" who tried to straddle the class struggle and are now, with the defeat of the left, being cleaned out by the right.

Mrs. Mao and Co. will never be heard from (unless her crowd stages a counter-coup). She will never get a trial. Most likely she won't even be seen again. From one end of the world to the other this is thought to be "normal". It is an outrage! It is fascist! It has nothing to do with Communism; with respect fo

CHALLENGE / December 2, 1976

Last week we saw how the Cultural Revolution in China expanded our understanding of how socialist society actually works in the areas of culture, education and health. We also saw that the gains of the Cultural Revolution are being systematically reversed by the revisionists (capitalists who call themselves socialists) who rule China today. This week, we look at the advances made in the factories, the fields and the government offices, and how these advances are being replaced by policies which restore capitalism.

Before the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, Chinese industry was shot through and through with capitalist practices like piece-rate wage systems, bonuses for hard work and strongly hierarchical management. In great struggles, the workers threw out this system which encouraged individualism, competition among the workers, and striving for material wealth above all else. They got rid of the bonuses and sharply reduced the difference in

Facing the ‘Thucydides Trap’…the military must step up its efforts. —Xu Qiliang, Vice-chairman of China’s military

[China] stated that war with the United States is inevitable...When you [U.S.] send an armored brigade combat team anywhere in the world...you have made a strategic decision to fight and win —Major General Richard Coffman of U.S. military

Imperialist rivals China and the U.S. are caught in the “Thucydides Trap,” an inevitable drive towards war when a rising power threatens to displace the established world power. Driven by their need for maximum profit and world supremacy, the capitalists are on the course toward World War III.

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