Following the Chinese revolution of 1949, many workers and youth—inspired by that historic blow to imperialism—were diverted from a revolutionary course as they followed the Mao Zedong leadership. Joseph Hansen develops the communist alternative to Mao's Stalinist, class-collaborationist course, which in 1965 paved the way for a CIA-backed coup in Indonesia, and for which more than half a million workers, peasants, and youths paid with their lives |
