MAO AND THE PARTY ESTABLISHMENT      

 

•                    Contradictions in society or class unity?

 

•                    Contradictions among leaders or collective leadership?

•                    rectification of bureaucratism, or de-Stalinization?

 

•                    The party: a corruptible institution needing discipline, or self-regulating elite?

 

•                    Main danger: revisionism (Right) or dogmatism (Left)?

 

•                    Mass action/voluntarism to be encouraged or discouraged?

 

•                    Development model: self-reliance focused on agriculture, or Soviet model focused on heavy industry?

 

•                    External inputs to the economy?

 

•                    Mass education or tiered system?