Fun with Propaganda

A few years ago I found an old, used copy of an English-Chinese dictionary. I don't remember where I got it exactly; maybe from a teacher or a used book store, but I also remember looking through books being gotten rid of by the East-Asian library at the U of M, so maybe I got it there. It was published in 1979, three years after the death of Mao and the end of the Cultural Revolution. From my browsing of the book, I can see that the government propaganda presses were still going strong. It is simply rife with pro-party pro-communist phrases, disguised as examples to help people understand just how these English words are used. Seemingly innocuous words such as bind, well, fight, active, above, and characteristic join the fray in helping to win the ideological war. I personally find this corruption of the language to serve their cause very telling of the intellectual climate there. Well, I'm sure you're curious as to just how these words were subverted, so here you have it.

above: In class society there is no human nature above classes.
active: an active ideological society
bind: Common struggles have bound the Chinese and world peoples in a profound militant friendship.
characteristic: the correct ideas characteristic of the advanced class
fight: fight for the cause of communism; fight with the world's people against imperialism; all comrades fought to undertake the hardest job; fight revisionism
well: remember well the hard time we had in the old society; when the Red Guards saw Chairman Mao, their eyes welled up with tears.

Seriously people, I am not making this crap up. I think I'll just go ahead and start a "Propaganda of the Day" theme here. I have a feeling it will take me a while to exhaust the supply in this obsolete yet amusing "dictionary". Feel free to make guesses as to what words might contain more propaganda gems, and I'll post them if they do. Tomorrow, we'll look at the many useful examples associated with the word "carry". I'm sure you just can't wait.