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The True Face Of The Dalai Lama
by Kalovski at 4-2-8
http://www.rense.com/general81/faeeof.htm
[Part.18]
In Part 3: The Revolution Within the Revolution




Tibet's storm of class struggle displeased some powerful forces inside the Chinese Communist
Party itself. These forces, called revisionists, opposed Mao's revolutionary line. These forces
were grouped around the party leader Liu Shao-chi, the top general Lin Piao, and Deng Xiaoping
(who rules China today.) They had a completely different (and quite capitalist) view of what
should be done with Tibet.
The revisionists did not see much reason to mobilize the masses to overthrow the feudal
landlords. They were "Han chauvinists" who looked down on the masses of Tibetan people­
considering them hopelessly backward and superstitious. They thought the Tibetan students in the
Institutes of National Minorities should be trained as administrators, not as revolutionary
organizers. They thought Tibet should be ruled through the educated upper classes, while relying
on military means to keep the region "under control."
To these revisionists, Maoist class struggle was just "disruption" of their plans for exploiting
Tibet. When they looked at Tibet, they saw only a border that needed defending, mineral
resources to be exploited, and a potential "breadbasket" that could help feed the rest of China.
They thought that developing independent industries or diversified agriculture was "inefficient"
and a waste of time. The revisionists imagined that they could reach a long-term arrangement
with the Lamaist ruling class­that would be profitable for them both.
But at that time, these capitalist-roaders did not have overall power. Mao was determined to
lead the masses of people in all-the-way revolution. He fought to have a revolutionary approach
carried out in Tibet and other national minority areas.
As early as 1953, Mao wrote in the essay Criticize Han Chauvinism: "In some places the relations
between nationalities are far from normal. For Communists this is an intolerable situation. We
must go to the root and criticize the Han chauvinist ideas which exist to a serious degree among
many Party members and cadres, namely, the reactionary ideas of the landlord class and the
bourgeoisiewhich are manifested in the relations between nationalities. In other words,
bourgeois ideas dominate the minds of those comrades and people who have had no Marxist
education and have not grasped the nationality policy of the Central Committee."
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Originally from http://www.bestcyrano.org/cyrano/?p=507.

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