Zhang Chunqiao
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Member of the Cultural Revolution Group; Chairman of the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee; Politburo Standing Committee member and Vice-Premier; one of the four tried in 1980 as the "Gang of Four", the post-1976 leadership's name for the group · China
On the regime page: People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong
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“Historical experience shows us that whether the proletariat can triumph over the bourgeoisie and whether China will turn revisionist hinges on whether we can persevere in exercising all-round dictatorship over the bourgeoisie in all spheres and at all stages of development in the revolution.”
English: Peking Review (English edition), no. 14, 4 April 1975, pp. 5-11. Original-language text not found.
Article written at Mao's call for study of the dictatorship of the proletariat, published while Zhang was Vice-Premier. It was later issued as a pamphlet.
"On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie", Peking Review no. 14 (4 April 1975), pp. 5-11 Source
“It is imperative to exercise all-round dictatorship over the bourgeoisie, and it is absolutely impermissible to give it up halfway.”
English: Peking Review (English edition), no. 14, 4 April 1975, pp. 5-11. Original-language text not found.
Closes the article's argument that the dictatorship of the proletariat must cover every sphere and every stage of the revolution, addressed to Party members.
"On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie", Peking Review no. 14 (4 April 1975), pp. 5-11 Source
“It’s dangerous to stop half-way! The bourgeoisie is beckoning to you.”
English: Peking Review (English edition), no. 14, 4 April 1975, pp. 5-11. Original-language text not found.
Said of Party members who, in the article's words, joined the Party organizationally but not ideologically and want to settle down once they have secured gains.
"On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie", Peking Review no. 14 (4 April 1975), pp. 5-11 Source
“Some have reached the point of looking at everything as a commodity, including themselves.”
English: Peking Review (English edition), no. 14, 4 April 1975, pp. 5-11. Original-language text not found.
From the passage on a "bourgeois wind" said to blow among Communists, particularly leading cadres. The article argues that commodity production and unequal wages continue under socialism and must be restricted.
"On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie", Peking Review no. 14 (4 April 1975), pp. 5-11 Source