is again beginning to organise. journal October Review reports. IN EARLY 1992, Deng Xiaoping embarked on a visit to the south to press his views and confront differences within the Party leadership on the question of further economic reform.
in all, Deng branded oppositional ideas as 'leftist'. In this latest round of confrontations, differences are highlighted.
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Name Return to IVP 2 rue Richard Lenor, 93108, Montreul, France Page 6 July 11, 1992 ageing bureaucracy is in deep trouble. Political struggles within the party are intensifying over market reforms, while the democratic opposition ZHANG KAI of the Hong Kong trotskyist Stating what is capitalist and what is socialist, Deng's three criteria are different from those posed earlier by lang In 1991 Jiang said 'An economy of Chinese-style must insist on having as its backbone the socialist public ownership of the means produc tion.these should not be Special introductory offer International Viewpoint motione to the has Wars orders No. 25 can function under the guidance of the state plan But in 1992 Deng says the criteria should be 'whether it is advantageous to strengthen ing the overall power of the socialist country and whether it is advantageous to improv. ng the people's livelihood' Deng is obviously prag matic in his idea of develop ment of productivity and reckless in overlooking the fact that many privately-run enterprises operating under the law of the market claim "socialist' nature.
Deng said 'whether it is a bit more of the plan or a bit more of the market is not the essential distinction between socialism and capitalism. The distinctions between capitalism and socialism slurred and their contradictions reconciled.
Deng is rallying support from high-ranking mi leaders and local bureaucratic cadres to compei some veterans to go along with his proposal of accelerating reform. However, before his speeches were circulated to the entire Party and bureaucracy, the Party Central did some editing and deleted some formulations.
What had been deleted included: Whoever is not committed to the reform must step down'; the naming of Deng ing for criticism; and critical words directed at some veteran comrades in very high levels of the Party.
LI Peng's Work Report made one or two months later included much of what Deng said, yet made no Deng's critique of the 'left'. We must be vigilant against the 'right", but the main Question is to guard againsethe After much argument, the phrase was finally added into the Report after a vote was taken by the National People's Congress. Still, in Li Peng's report, the three criteria were modified to become the 'criteria for defining the success or failure of the reform'. Ditterences contnue to sur face.
When confronted with resistance from all sides in launching the economic termit tom ever, Deng. has to resort to exploiting different torces to give him support.
With growing differences in the ruling strata and surfacing out of the differences after Deng's visit to the south, some space has opened up for the people's dissent and activities o revive On April 5, about 40 students from Qinghua and Beiy ing Universities, pinning small white flowers on their clothes, went to Tiananmen Square in the people's h eroes at the Monument. Though they were stopped, the act was symbolic Some time earlier, Dongfang the former leaderof the now outlawed Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation filed in an application for a parade.
This also indicated a change in the political atmosphere among the people. And the Preparatory Committee of the Beijing Free Trade Union' distributed propaganda material about the organisation's appeal to set up independent trade untons The acceleration of the economic reform is leading to further sacrifices demanded of the workers, whose right to a job and reasonable wages is undermined. More resistance from the workers is expected to evolve.
Three years after the 1989 movement, the regime is still painstakingly attempting to stabilise its rule. It has come under serious pressure from domestic difficulties, factional power struggles and the it pact of the drastic changes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Signs of people's resistance are emerging here and there, presaging an important strug sie yer to conne
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