(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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