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The first intra-Party conflict to be fought through the press occurred in the mid-1950s, when Mao was eager to harness the wave of popular enthusiasm that had emerged with the new nation’s founding to drive through a rapid industrialization plan. The Party apparatus was opposed to this idea. In its capacity as the Party’s mouthpiece, People’s Daily published an article expounding the need to “oppose impetuosity and adventurism” and set targets that were in accord with China’s objective conditions (quoted in Cheek 1997, 172). Provoked by this and other signs of his increasing marginalization within the Party, Mao began to advocate the famous Hundred Flowers policy, which invited intellectuals and writers to publicly criticize the Party’s bureaucratism (MacFarquhar 1974). Still controlled by the Party apparatus, however, People’s Daily adopted a lukewarm approach to reporting on Mao’s efforts and even published an article arguing against the Hundred Flowers policy. Although Mao immediately criticized this article, People’s Daily did not report either on his response to it or on his efforts to further promote and expand the campaign. Blocked from conveying his views to the masses, Mao became openly irate and hostile to the newspaper and its editor-in-chief, Deng Tuo. Mao exerted the weight of his status as the Party’s charismatic helmsman to personally remove Deng from his editorship, and overrode the objections of the Party bureaucrats to have the Hundred Flowers movement scaled up to a major Party rectification campaign.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
In the Ruby ecosystem, Bundler does [conservative updating](https://bundler.io/v2.2/man/bundle-install.1.html#CONSERVATIVE-UPDATING): like `composer install`, `bundle install` will install only from your `Gemfile.lock` if it's present; however, if you change the `Gemfile` manually, then `bundle install` will try to update the relevant locked versions in `Gemfile.lock`.
Understanding Lockfiles
shalvah.me
Base64 isn't entirely URL-safe; you can put it in a URL, but the `/` character might be misinterpreted, so it often needs to be encoded. If you need something that can be put in a URL as-is, other encodings (such as base32) might be a better fit.
Base64's Goodness
shalvah.me
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