Lin Piao and the Doctrine of Confucius and Mencius

Abstract

Inspired by the spirit of the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the movement to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius is developing in depth. Lenin pointed out that in the acute struggle between the proletariat and the exploiting classes, "the more varied the exploiters' attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination." The current vigorous struggle to criticize Confucius is a component part of the criticism of Lin Piao and is precisely a battle to pull up the roots of Lin Piao's counterrevolutionary revisionist line. Lin Piao's hideout was flooded with the trash of Confucian ideology and stank of putrid Confucianism. More and more facts show that the reactionary doctrine of Confucius and Mencius was an important source of Lin Piao's revisionism. Lin Piao and company resorted to this reactionary doctrine for restoring capitalism politically, tampering ideologically with the Party's theoretical basis, mustering ranks of counterrevolutionaries organizationally by recruiting deserters and renegades for a diehard clique, tactically playing counterrevolutionary double-dealing tricks and engaging in intrigues and conspiracies. Once Lin Piao's disguise was stripped off, he was exposed for what he was — an out-and-out devout disciple of Confucius.