Friday, November 17, 2017

8 - The importance of Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Successes – Lessons CC, CPI (Maoist) February 26th, 2017

(On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China)

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Great proletarian Cultural Revolution – Art and Literature and PLA
Many new creative issues representing the proletariat were introduced in the field of art and literature. Music, theatre, ballet, painting, short stories and poetry developed in a big scale in multimedia with the call of Cultural Revolution to criticize Confucius, bourgeois ideology, culture, customs and habits. They served to build Socialism. This new cultural work depended on the many great experiences of workers and peasants and the great effort for collective interests.
People were allowed to propagate widely through wall magazines during the Cultural Revolution. Thousands and lakhs of people mobilized to conduct great debates. They struggled against the reactionary ideology. They punished the corrupt officers. They fought for the freedom of press and for democratic rights. The masses enjoyed four freedoms - the right to speak, to express their ideas, to participate in the great debate and to publish wall magazines.
The People’s Liberation Army of China stood in support of the masses as a Revolutionary Democratic Army during the GPCR. The PLA obeyed the call of Mao that they have to be humble towards the masses regarding supporting the revolutionary line. PLA participated in production, in various constructions, in avoiding storms and floods, in digging canals, and helped, served the peasants and workers during earthquakes and in natural calamities. The differentiation of big and small positional status was removed in PLA. They provided MLM theoretical understanding to PLA as like they are giving to peasants and workers. PLA was given the consciousness to be more alert to prepare for any kind of sacrifices to protect the country.
In the leadership of the great Marxist teacher Mao, CPC built a society without considerable differences within three decades through Socialism. Many top level Chinese leaders like Mao and Chou En Lai worked hard for the masses of China and the world. But they took a salary equal to that of a Professor. They never accumulated private property in their life. The masses of China took such leaders as ideal, worked hard and transformed their motherland as a modern industrial country and the most advanced political and social system of free medicine and free education to each and everyone. Especially genuine workers, peasants and soldiers became part of the government and governed. These worker, peasant and soldier government leaders worked together with the peasants and workers even after coming to high positions. The directive principle for these government officers is to serve the people. This is the true democracy. This is the government of the people, for the people and by the people. These peasant-worker government officers not only represented the interests of the peasants and workers in the government but they themselves were peasants and workers. They lived like peasants and workers.
On the whole, the GPCR is unique. It was an experiment that shook the world. It handed over a proper form and method for the world proletariat to advance in the Socialist path. Cultural Revolution became an effective force. It is because crores of masses mobilized under the CPC and proletarian leadership and leapt into practice. The MLM revolutionary understanding of the Chinese masses made a severe impact. Though temporarily, Cultural Revolution continued severe class struggle and avoided the restoration of bourgeois dictatorship. In the process of fighting against revisionism they fought against capitalist roaders. They also ‘fought against self’ to fight revisionism. The Socialist consciousness among the masses made a great leap forward, in a way unprecedented in human history. Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is an issue concerning world outlook. It is a theoretical weapon to prepare the masses to understand and transform the world with consciousness and thus to change themselves.
If we synthesize the experience of GPCR we understand that we cannot success the New Democratic Revolution in India in a casual manner, fearing difficulties or without sacrifices. We can make the Protracted People’s War a success only by continuing class struggle, by working with a spirit to deny death courageously and by depending on the revolutionary spirit and enthusiasm. We have to demonstrate great dynamism, revolutionary spirit and enthusiasm to strengthen proletarian dictatorship and to build Socialism also. As long as we have close relations with the broad masses, depend on them, maintain the same revolutionary enthusiasm and advance, work with the same courage in the revolutionary war for years together with the spirit of not caring death, we can advance towards our objective fast.

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