This is a straightforward list, set
in Letter Gothic, of ideological categories collected from the
period just prior to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
These would have been collected for embassies in China by readers
scouring the newspapers and political speeches for new terminology.
Such compilations were to have helped political diplomacy.
This is
interesting to me as evidence of political intoxication. Repetitive,
absurd, frightening, and pointless, it's an image of a regime
trying to deal with unrest and isolation through obsessive classification.
Amongst the given categories are these ones for a familiar late-nineteenth
century tendency: Art-for-art's-sake-ism, Baudelaire-ism,
Decadent-ism, Oscar Wilde-ism, Ruskinism.
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