Author(s): Wang Ming
Publisher: The November 8th Publishing House
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 318
City: Toronto
A SHORT FOREWORD
I. FIFTY YEARS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA
II. “CAMPAIGN FOR THE RECTIFICATION OF STYLE” — DRESS REHEARSAL OF THE “CULTURAL REVOLUTION”
1. THE PREPARATORY FIRST PERIOD OF THE “STYLE RECTIFICATION” CAMPAIGN
1) By means of intrigues and compulsion he suspended all Party periodicals in Yenan
2) He closed down educational establishments
3) He counterposed Maoism to Leninism
4) He falsified the history of the Tsunyi conference
5) The poisoning of Wang Ming which injured his health
6) Mao seizes the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee
7) Mao forms a body of men to conduct the “style rectification campaign”
2. THE SECOND PERIOD OF “STYLE RECTIFICATION”
1) The Commission and subdivisions for “the rectification of the style of work”
2) The methods and objectives of the “rectification of style”
3) My three talks with Mao on “rectification”
4) Mao’s talks at the art and literature forum in Yenan
1) Mao’s Insinuations
2) The True Facts of History
3) Mao’s Theoretical Mistakes, Utilitarianism and Pragmatism
4) Briefly about Mao Tse-tung’s Poetry
5) The Outcome is Total Failure
3. THE THIRD PERIOD — “EMERGENCY SALVATION”
1) Fabricating the pretext for “Emergency salvation”
2) “Emergency salvation” in name and repression of leaders, cadres and Party members in fact
3) Leninist internationalists were still the main target
4) Most Party leaders were declared “counter-revolutionary suspects”
4. THE FOURTH PERIOD — “SELF-REFUTATION AND REHABILITATION”
1) The reasons for the “self-refutation and rehabilitation” campaign
5. THE FIFTH PERIOD — “SUMMING UP”
1) The ideological and political results
2) The “organizational conclusions”
3) The results in questions of “style”
III. THE “CULTURAL REVOLUTION” AND THE MAOIST BID FOR COOPERATION WITH IMPERIALISM
1. “CULTURAL REVOLUTION’’ IN NAME AND COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY COUP IN SUBSTANCE
2. COOPERATION WITH IMPERIALISM IS A COMPONENT OF MAO’S COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY COUP
3. THE BEGINNING OF THE PRESENT MAOIST LINE OF COOPERATION WITH IMPERIALISM
4. THE BASIC REASONS FOR MAO’S DISGRACE
IV. THE FATE OF THE “LONE MONK” AND THE MAOIST 10TH CONGRESS
1. WHY MAO TSE-TUNG BECAME A “LONE MONK”
1) The inevitable result of ideological and political mistakes
2) The inevitable result of persecuting and exterminating all “close associates”
3) The inevitable result of “style rectification” and “cultural revolution”
2. THE HOME AND FOREIGN POLICY OF THE MAOIST 10TH CONGRESS
1) The main objective of home policy
2) The central link in the foreign policy of the 10th Congress
3) Mao in the grip of insoluble contradictions
3. MAO TSE-TUNG AND CHIN SHIH HUANG90F
1) Why and how Mao Tse-tung praises Chin Shih Huang
2) Why and how Mao attacks Confucius
3) Why and how Mao Tse-tung abuses the name of Lu Hsun
4) “Criticism of Lin Piao and Confucius” and the fate of the “lone despot”
AFTERWORD