04875. PERMANENT REVOLUTION IN CHINA. Mao Tse-tung's theory of an ongoing revolution in China is examined in this study. The concept of internal and external contradictions leading to tension between the bureaucracy and the ideology of Marxism is remarked upon, and the history of Red China is reviewed in terms of the revolutionary impulse. The great Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 is also viewed, and the aftermath and post Mao eras are also examined. 15 pages, 19 footnotes, 14 bibliographic sources.