Lin Biao

Also known as Lin Yurong, Lin Piao

Chinese Communist military commander and politician

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Lin Biao was a prominent Chinese Communist military commander who rose to become one of the most powerful figures in China during the 1960s-70s, serving as Defense Minister and Vice Chairman of the Communist Party. He matters historically because his sudden fall from power in 1971 marked a dramatic turning point in Chinese politics, though the exact circumstances of his death and alleged coup plot remain controversial and contested.

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Born: 1908
Died: 1971
Works: 60

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The Selected Works of Lin Biao
晉北游擊戰爭紀實
人民战争胜利万岁
[林彪選集]
Report to the ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China

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“The Red Guards and other revolutionary organizations of the young people in the colleges and middle schools are the shook force fighting in the van in the great cultural revolution, and a powerful reserve force of the People’s Liberation Army.”
“Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s great merit lies in the fact that he has succeeded in integrating the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution and has enriched and developed Marxism-Leninism by his masterly generalization and summation the experience gained during the Chinese people’s protracted revolutionary struggle.”
“In the last analysis, whether one dares to wage a tit-for-tat struggle against armed aggression and suppression by the imperialists and their lackeys, whether one dares to fight a people’s war against them, means whether ono dares to embark on revolution. This is the most effective touchstone for distinguishing genuine from fake revolutionaries and Marxist-Leninists.”
“It must be emphasized that Comrade Mao Tse-tung’s theory of the establishment of rural revolutionary base areas and the encirclement of the cities from the countryside is of outstanding and universal., practical importance for the present revolutionary struggles of all the oppressed nations and peoples, and particularly for the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and peoples in Asia, Africa, and Latin America against imperialism and its lackeys.”
“With political power, the proletariat and the working people will have everything and without political power, they will lose everything. No matter how innumerable are the issues, we must never, forget political power. Forgetting political power means forgetting the fundamental viewpoint of Marxism. If we do so, we will become muddle headed fools and we will not be able to know how we are killed even when we forfeit our lives.”
“If the proletariat does not occupy the positions in literature and art, the bourgeoisie certainly will. This is inevitable. And it represents an extremely broad and deep socialist revolution in the realm of ideology. If things are not done properly, revisionism will prevail.”

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art name: 育榮
Commons gallery: Lin Biao
Commons category: Lin Biao
date of birth: 1907-12-05
date of death: 1971-01-01
name in native language: 林彪
start of work period: 1925-00-00
described at URL: www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/l/lin_biao.htm
birth name: 林育蓉
courtesy name: 阳春
nickname: 春儿
end of work period: 1971-00-00

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Lin Biao (Chinese: 林彪; 5 December 1907 – 13 September 1971) was a Chinese military commander and politician. Pivotal to the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, he commanded the Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns at the head of the Manchurian Field Army, led the People's Liberation Army into Beijing, and swept the Kuomintang from the coastal provinces of Southeast China. He was ranked third among the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China, behind Zhu De and Peng Dehuai.

After 1949, Lin initially withdrew from active politics. He served as a Vice Premier from 1954 and as one of the Vice Chairmen of the Chinese Communist Party from 1958, before assuming the additional post of Minister of National Defense in 1959. In the early 1960s he played a key role in cultivating Mao Zedong's cult of personality, and was rewarded during the Cultural Revolution by being designated Mao's sole successor as the Party's only Vice Chairman, a position he held from 1966 until his death.