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Ce que les impérialistes craignent le plus ("What imperialism fears most"), A compelling example of Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda in French, printed in comparatively small numbers. Within the context of the ideological fissure between Moscow and Beijing, such items played directly on the activist spirit of the sixties in order to win gains for the Maoist ideological cause world-wide.France was a natural target when it came to exporting Maoism abroad. On the one hand, several members of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership hierarchy had cut their Marxist teeth in France in the early 20th century, and the Cultural Revolution drew inspiration from the Paris Commune. On the other hand, the mass politics of the Cultural Revolution dovetailed with the counter-cultural left-wing activism that permeated France in the 1960s. By 1967, the French Left was much taken with developments in China and, in Paris, "signs of Maoism's popularity abounded" (Wolin, p. 114). Clothing boutiques sold copious Mao suits - "les cols Maos" - and booksellers experienced runs on copies of the "Little Red Book" translated into French. In elite intellectual circles, Louis Althusser's students at the Ecole normale supérieure "were planning trips to China, copiously citing the Little Red Book, and praising the virtues of a "war of position" against the bourgeois enemy" (ibid., p. 118).By distributing posters such as the present exemplar, Peking Foreign Languages Press deepened China's ideological

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