Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius

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A Chinese poster from 1974 which reads 'Criticizing Lin, Criticizing Confucius, is a major event for the whole party, the whole army and the whole people of the country'

The Criticize Lin (Biao), Criticize Confucius campaign (Chinese: 批林批孔运动; pinyin: pī Lín pī Kǒng yùndòng) was a political campaign started by Mao Zedong's fourth wife Jiang Qing, which lasted from 1973 to 1974 and was an extension of the then-current anti-Lin Biao campaign, used to attack the then-Premier Zhou Enlai. Academics like Yang Rongguo connected Lin Biao and other ousted leaders to Confucian policies, accusing them of following his philosophy. Lin’s alleged treason was linked to its ancient supposed moral equivalent. Confucius’s alleged attempt to roll back the tide of history by upholding the values of the Slave Society of Western Zhou was an allegorical attack on Zhou Enlai's policies that potentially undermined the legacy of the Cultural Revolution. It was part of a series of campaigns in the latter stages of the Cultural Revolution.

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