In the press, angry headlines appeared: "criticize chen mengjia"; "refute the rightist element chen mengjia's absurd theory".
One article proclaimed, "The Rightist Element Chen Mengjia, a blade of grass that is poisonous... should never be allowed to root deep".
The political left, consisting mainly of Social Democrats, covered a wide spectrum from moderate to revolutionary socialists; the political right was even more diverse, ranging from social liberals and moderate conservatives to rightist conservative elements.
Zealots denounced Confucius for fostering "bad elements, rightists, monsters, and freaks," and one of Mao's lieutenants gave the approval to dig up his grave.
But it is enthusiastically espoused by rightist and especially religious elements in his government.The nature of demagoguery is that it immediately arouses counter-demagoguery.
The movement's ideology has elements in common with the ultra-rightist militias of the United States: fear of world conspiracies of Jews, freemasons and financiers, and a fascination with Hitler.
For some elements of the anti-Barack Obama rightists, a comparable moment might be on April 12 when it was barely noon in Washington, moments before U.S. Navy commandos killed three Somali pirates and rescued the kidnapped American sea captain Richard Phillips.
But in Israel, the extreme element of the settler movement, the rightist nationalistic movement and other peace-bashers have made it their mission to become as brute, cruel and mindless as those they so vehemently criticize and preach against.
During the violent class struggles of the Cultural Revolution from 1965 to 1975 she was labeled a "black element," a term for members of the former ruling class or rightist intelligentsia.
