Talking about Revolution, Zhou Lunyou

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Zhou Lunyou
Talking about Revolution
In imitation of a particular ideological discourse (April 14, 1993)

Revolution is not a dinner party..... – Mao Zedong

Chairman Mao said only the half of it about revolution
I’ll supply the remaining half
First I want to say: This topic of revolution is very big
Very broad, we can’t get a grasp of it
We can only see a color (which makes us remember
That the blood of revolutionary martyrs did not flow in vain)
Red is the representative color of revolution. Hence the red flag
Is red, the red scarf is red, the revolutionary
soldier’s heart is red, the red sun is red
…..
Also the “two hands of revolution”: Conspiracy becomes an overt act
Treachery becomes virtue, it triumphs over honesty and intelligence
Anything can be said in the name of revolution
And it becomes irrefutable truth, not open to doubt

…..
….. These are all
Basic principles of revolution, inviolable
Born into New China, nurtured beneath the red flag
You and I grew up drinking the milk of revolution
Of course we know what revolution is. Revolution is
instantly effective when using the class struggle, when the three mountains
Are toppled, we stamp another foot down on them

A million feet, teach them that they will never stand again
Revolution is a political campaign, incite masses to struggle against masses
Fight yourself: Ruthlessly struggle against fleeting thoughts of the word “private”
Revolution is revolt to its greatest degree (combat imperialism combat revisionism
Combat leftism combat rightism combat liberalization combat peaceful evolution)
Only revolution cannot be opposed (counter revolution carries a death penalty)
This way of saying it is still too abstract, let me explain
More concretely: Revolution is to examine ancestry back three generations
There is theory of class status, but not theory of the unique importance of class
origins
…..
Revolution is overt plotting, is to lure the snakes out of their nests
Especially to attack snakes with eyeglasses (the more knowledgeable
The more reactionary) Revolution is the East Wind prevailing over the West Wind
Its “asking for instructions in the morning”, “reporting back in the evening”, the
fandango of loyalty
Mao’s quotations sung. It’s Attention Long Live Chairman Mao To the right Dress
Down with Liu Shaoqi Look to the front Forever loyal to Chairman Mao
To the left Turn Forever
…..
Chairman Mao waves and I advance
Revolution is a vast world that tempers red hearts
It’s to recall past suffering

…..
To adore New China even more. It’s Lei Feng
Wang Jie, Yang Zirong, Ouyang Hai, Guo Jianguang
Just before dying the hero raises his arm in salute and shouts:
“Long Live Chairman Mao! The diary is under the pillow.....”
Revolution is Xi’er not becoming Huang Shiren’s concubine
The ignominiousness of Wang Debiao as a traitor. Li Yuhe
Before departing drinking a bowl of wine to his mother, Thank you Ma!

Heroes always fall beneath the same pine tree
Accompanied by The Internationale, there’s no pain
The final victory must surely be ours
Revolution is not to allow monsters and demons to act and speak carelessly
Much less allow them to fart! Class warfare must be stressed day in day out
Month in month out year in year out (with regard to farting
Only later did we hear that it is beneficial to mind and body)
Now the wording is different: one center two points
Class struggle must still be stressed. Revolution is to
Emancipate thought, seek truth from facts, not to wrong good people
Initially it gave you hats to wear, now it gives you redress
All is correct, all is revolutionary necessity
Correcting one’s own mistakes is the equivalent of making no mistakes
Revolution is “dichotomy”, and the “seventy-thirty ratio”
Results are of paramount importance. Don’t get cocky
(Being more correct than chairman Mao is in itself an error)
Revolution is the reimportation and sale of exports, defective goods
Sold to Chinese, don’t worship foreign things
With foreigners you can transcend ideology
Not with nationals. Or in other words
Peacefully coexist with imperialism, with the people
Under no circumstances be soft-hearted! This is called distinguishing between
domestic and foreign

Government policy and tactics are the life of the Party, now
There’s no need to recite them, but they must continue to be carried out
The East Wind did not prevail over the West Wind, but
Certainly will never be overwhelmed by the West Wind. Future prospects
Are bright, the road is torturous
Revolution is like feeling for rocks with your feet while wading across a river,
suddenly left
Suddenly right, it’s difficult to avoid paying some tuition
It’s all a matter of dressing warmly and eating one’s fill. A comparatively well-off

level of living. Double it and double that again
Now we need to lengthen our strides a bit
Revolution is to get things moving, for a second time
Distribute land to the farmers (no change for fifty years)
It’s all the people going into business. A stockholding system. A market economy
Revolution is changing from agricultural to non-agricultural producer, the “54321
Office”
(Five stresses four beauties three ardors two civilizations brought together as one)
Possessing Chinese characteristics. Casual pissing and shitting is not allowed
But of a billion people nine hundred million gamble. Saunas at public expense
Blind wandering of the unemployed. Syphilis. Sexual diseases spread widely
Is revolution surnamed “socialist” or “capitalist”, it’s hard to say
Don’t argue anymore. Together all the people of the land look to money
Ultimately revolution is an issue about cats
I approve of this way of saying it: white cat black cat
If it catches mice, it’s a good cat. Finally, I want to say
Revolution is buying a cat over an open sack
Revolution is catching the mice

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no livro, online, China's Second World of Poetry: The Sichuan Avant-Garde 1982-1992, para descarregar inteirinho em .pdf e ir lendo em papel.
e The Poetry of Zhou Lunyou, também em .pdf.


Zhou Lunyou was born in 1952 in Xichang, Sichuan province. Zhou began to secretly write
poetry in the early 1970s, and had his first Misty-style poems officially published in 1981. By
1984, however, he had lost interest in the official scene and was concentrating on the
modernization of poetics and technique, which led him into Sichuan’s unofficial poetry scene.
After taking an editorial role in the publication of Modernists Federation 现代诗内部交流资料
in early 1985 and contributing to other journals that year, Zhou set about establishing his own
poetry journal in the spring of 1986: Not-Not 非非. Between 1986-1989, he edited four editions
of the journal and two of the Not-Not Critiques 非非评论 paper. Yet, in August 1989, Zhou was
arrested for “inciting counter-revolution” and after spending a few months in prison in Xichang
was shifted to a labor camp in the mountains of western Sichuan until his release in September
1991. While incarcerated, he continued to write poetry (in 6 below) and in 1992 oversaw the reissue
of Not-Not. A second combined #6-7 edition appeared in 1993, but further editions were
delayed until 2000, and are now published in Hongkong, while Zhou splits his time between
Xichang and Chengdu. In 1994, a publishing house in Dunhuang, Gansu province, hired Zhou to
edit a series of books of post-modernist literature, which included a collection of Not-Not-ism
poetry and theory. In 1999, Zhou was able to have a volume of his theoretical writings officially
published in China and a collection of his poetry published in Taiwan.

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