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Article: William Hinton on the Cultural Revolution.(Critical essay)
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- Monthly Review
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- March 1, 2005
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Ever since the major reversals of socialism in the twentieth century, first in the Soviet Union and then in China, leftists internationally have been faced with a serious question: After the initial victory of the people's revolutionary forces, what can be done to keep on the "socialist road"? What measures can be taken to restrict the class differences inherited from the old society, fend off imperialist hostility and intervention, and prevent a new capitalist class from developing within socialist society itself?
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was China's answer to this question. It was a historical first--a punctuated series of mass revolutionary ...