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"The 'extreme-Left' presented a view of what was going on in the GPCR [Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution--ed.] which was contradictory to the official views of the CCP under Mao. ('95% of the cadres are good' vs '90% of the cadres must step aside'). If their analysis of the political situation in China was correct, if China was at that time ruled by a 'red' bourgeoisie, then the 'extreme-Left' is, in fact, the Left and Mao and his allies are the principal section of the 'red bourgeoisie.' The attack on Liu Shao-ch'i and a tiny minority of high officials was therefore a struggle within this bourgeois class."(pp. 8-9)-- "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Reversal of Workers' Power in China," Progressive Labor Party, 1971 "China: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom OR 'A Host of Dragons without a Leader'" by Nigel Harris "Nigel Harris is a leading theoretician of a neo-Trotskyist group, International Socialists, which is probably the largest of the left groupings today in the United Kingdom."(p. 40) "On the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" February 1967 by W.F.H. "F.H Wang is one of the few active Chinese Trotskyists belonging to the older generation."(p. 61) "Mao's China and the 'Proletarian Cultural Revolution'" by Raya Dunayevskaya "Raya Dunayevskaya was a secretary to Leon Trotsky."(p. 93)
"The Explosion Point of Ideology in China" "Theses on the Chinese Revolution" . . . "Solidarity is a libertarian communist group in the United Kingdom."(p. 117) [MC5 comments: I list the above as a partial list only to show that the PLP had veered into Trotskyist and anarchist territory. There was more quoting from Bakunin etc. The book PLP found itself published in was mostly Trotskyists and anarchists taking up the idealist method against actually existing socialism. Not for nothing we can speak of "Trotarchism."] |