Yao Wenyuan
"On the Social Basis of the Lin Piao Anti-Party Clique"
Peking Review #10, 1975

"If we do not act in this way, but instead call 
for the consolidation, extension and strengthening 
of bourgeois right and the partial inequality it 
entails, the inevitable result will be 
polarization, i.e., in the matter of distribution 
a small number of people will appropriate 
increasing amounts of commodities and money 
through some legal and many illegal ways; 
stimulated by 'material incentives' of this kind, 
capitalist ideas of making a fortune and craving 
personal fame and gain will spread unchecked; 
phenomena like the turning of public property into 
private property, speculation, graft and 
corruption, theft and bribery will increase; the 
capitalist principle of the exchange of 
commodities will make its way into political and 
even into Party life . . . . When the economic 
strength of the bourgeoisie has grown to a certain 
extent, its agents will demand political rule, 
demand the overthrow of the dictatorship of the 
proletariat and the socialist system, demand a 
complete changeover from socialist ownership, and 
openly restore and develop the capitalist system."

[Why the above was right: Mostly it described what 
was already happening in Brezhnev's "Soviet 
Union." What was really stunning about this quote 
is that it also predicted what would happen in 
China under Hua/Deng/Jiang Zemin if China did not follow
the course Yao was talking about. The following year,
the capitalist-roaders staged a coup against Yao and
put him in prison to begin the process Yao predicted
with regard to capitalist restoration.

Furthermore, Yao's essay 
correctly predicted that a move for open 
capitalism would occur as with Gorbachev and 
Yeltsin 11 years after the publication of Yao's 
document. We can also refer to most of the student 
movement in China in 1989 that wanted open 
capitalism.]