60年代末期,我还是一个大学生,参加了六七十年代受毛泽东思想影响的激进运动。对于挪威以及西欧的学生们来说:文化大革命和越南战争是重大事件。毛泽东成功地做到了把不同的事件放到一个综合的政治框架中来思考,懂得这些事件的幕后驱动力。他唤起了世界范围内反抗帝国主义的运动。有两本书对我了解毛泽东和中国的文化大革命起很重要的作用:一本 In the late 1960s, I was a college student and participated in the radical movement influenced by Mao Zedong Thought in the 1960s and 1970s. For students in Norway and Western Europe, the Cultural Revolution and the Vietnam War were major events. Mao Zedong successfully managed to think of different incidents in a comprehensive political framework and understand the behind-the-scenes driving force of these incidents. He evoke a worldwide campaign against imperialism. Two books play an important role in my understanding of Mao Zedong and China’s Cultural Revolution: one