Feudal fascism

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Feudal fascism, also revolutionary-feudal totalitarianism,

post-Mao Zedong Chinese Communist Party to designate the ideology and rule of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four during the Cultural Revolution. In 1979, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Ye Jianying, described Mao Zedong's reign as a “feudal-fascist dictatorship” due to his revolutionary terror-based cult of personality, nationalism and authoritarianism despite superficially socialist policies.[2]

Rationale

In China's

feudal ideology in China who had used the terrorist methods of fascism to suppress people's democracy. The methods criticized as feudal fascism included autocracy, ritualized dogma, mango worship, and military repression.[4] It also referred to a general lack of stable integration between the party and the state, which came from abuse of the mass line and a lack of regard to the Yan'an process
for handling inter-party dissent.

Effects

In 1977, the

more elections and other democratic institutions for China in order to prevent a repeat of feudal fascism.[5] One line from the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party was considered particularly emblematic of feudal fascism and was stripped during the post-Cultural Revolution 10th Congress: "Mao Zedong Thought is Marxism–Leninism of the era in which imperialism is heading for total collapse and socialism is advancing to world-wide victory".[1] Soon afterwards, the reformist leaders Hu Yaobang and Deng Xiaoping began to rehabilitate citizens who had been labeled as capitalist roaders, bad elements and counter-revolutionaries. This sharp rise in political freedom led to the Democracy Wall movement,[5] with some dissidents suggesting that the period of "feudal fascism" began much earlier than the Cultural Revolution.[3] The movement grew to be such threatening to party rule that it was suppressed and reform proceeded more cautiously thereafter.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Tsou, Tang (1999). The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms: A Historical Perspective. University of Chicago Press. pp. 290–291.
  2. ^ "Захарьев Я.О. (2018) КНР и Норвегия: архитектура отношений в начале ХХI века". 1ECONOMIC.RU (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  3. ^ a b Yan, Sun (1995). The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992. Princeton University Press. pp. 127–128.
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  5. ^ a b c Schell, Orville (1989). Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform. Random House. pp. 270–271.