Peking Review: Unprecedentedly Excellent Situation in Chinas Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

== Unprecedentedly Excellent Situation in China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ==

[This article is reprinted from Peking Review, Vol. 11, #43, Oct. 25, 1968, pp. 19-21.]

NINETEEN years have elapsed since the founding of the People’s Republic of China — our great motherland. The people throughout the nation are filled with militant enthusiasm and triumphant joy as the great proletarian cultural revolution approaches all-round victory and the big campaign of struggle-criticism-transformation surges to a new high.

Never before has our country been so prosperous as at present. Never before have the masses of the people been so militant and our dictatorship of the proletariat been so powerful and so well consolidated. All this is the result of the wise leadership of our great leader Chairman Mao. The broad masses of workers, peasants, soldiers, revolutionary cadres, revolutionary intellectuals and revolutionary people of our various nationalities are enthusiastically acclaiming the great victory of Mao Tse-tung’s thought and the great victory of Chairman Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line.

The founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, marked the basic conclusion of the stage of the new-democratic revolution and the beginning of the stage of the socialist revolution in China; it marked China’s entry into a new historical period of socialist revolution and socialist construction.

In a socialist society after the socialist transformation of the ownership of the means of production is in the main completed, are there still classes and class struggle? Does the proletariat still need to continue the revolution? Is there any possibility of a capitalist restoration? Chairman Mao has comprehensively summed up the historical experience of the dictatorship of the proletariat both at home and abroad, particularly the lesson of how the Party and state leadership of the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, was usurped by a revisionist clique and of how capitalism was restored in the Soviet Union. With the dialectical materialist world outlook of the proletariat, Chairman Mao has, for the first time in the history of the development of Marxism, scientifically, systematically, and incisively analysed the contradictions, classes and class struggle in socialist society and expounded the laws of class struggle in socialist society.

The class struggle waged under the dictatorship of the proletariat, in the last analysis, remains a question of political power, that is, the proletariat wants to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie wants to overthrow that dictatorship. This is because, after the proletariat has seized political power, the overthrown bourgeoisie is not reconciled to its defeat and will always try to stage a comeback. At the same time, small-scale production is incessantly engendering anew capitalism and the bourgeoisie, thus posing a threat to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Chairman Mao explicitly pointed out: “Socialist society covers a fairly long historical stage. In this stage, classes, class contradictions and class struggle continue, the struggle between the socialist road and the capitalist road continues and the danger of capitalist restoration remains. We must recognize the protracted and complex nature of this struggle.... Otherwise a socialist country like ours will turn into its opposite and degenerate, and a capitalist restoration will take place.”

“Those representatives of the bourgeoisie who have sneaked into the Party, the government, the army and various spheres of culture are a bunch of counter-revolutionary revisionists. Once conditions are ripe, they will seize political power and turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Some of them we have already seen through, others we have not. Some are still trusted by us and are being trained as our successors, persons like Khrushchov, for example, who are still nestling beside us. Party committees at all levels must pay full attention to this matter.”

Chairman Mao has not only put forward a whole set of theories, line, principles and policies for continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, but has, with great courage and spirit, personally initiated and successfully led the great proletarian cultural revolution, the first of its kind in human history. All this has, from theory to practice, thoroughly settled the fundamental questions of how a socialist state under the dictatorship of the proletariat should defend and consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat and prevent the restoration of capitalism and how a country whose leadership has been usurped by revisionists should overthrow their rule and re-establish the dictatorship of the proletariat and effect a gradual transition to communism, and has thus greatly enriched and developed Marxism-Leninism.

=== The Bourgeois Headquarters Headed by China’s Khrushchov Has Been Smashed ===

After waging repeated, fierce and soul-stirring struggles in the present great proletarian cultural revolution, the proletarian revolutionaries, young Red Guard fighters and the revolutionary masses in China, under the brilliant command of Chairman Mao, have smashed thi bourgeois headquarters which, headed by China’s Khrushchov, lay hidden inside our Party. They have dragged out its agents in various places, taken one after another the reactionary fortresses in which these scoundrels bad entrenched themselves, seized back that part of the Party, government, financial and cultural power these persons had usurped and put it back into the hands of the proletariat. They have thus smashed the criminal plot of China’s Khrushchov and his agents to subvert the dictatorship of the proletariat and restore capitalism in China.

A host of facts prove that China’s Khrushchov and the rest of the handful of top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road represent the interests of the Kuomintang reactionaries and the interests of imperialism and the bourgeoisie and of the landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and the Rightists. They are the most dangerous enemies of the proletariat under the conditions of socialism and a gang of counter-revolutionaries who had wormed their way into our Party. A considerable portion of them are remnants of the Kuomintang reactionaries. China’s Khrushchov, the No. 1 capitalist roacler in the Party, is a despicable renegade who prostrated himself before the imperialists and the Kuomintang reactionaries on many occasions. The other top Party capitalist roader and Tao Chu, Peng Teh-huai, Peng Chen, Tan Chen-lin, Lo Jui-ching, Lu Ting-yi, Yang Shang-kun, An Tzu-wen and others are all renegades, enemy agents or counter-revolutionary revisionists of every description lying hidden inside our Party. This pack of extremely cunning and malevolent men had usurped not a few important positions in our Party and government. Once conditions were ripe, they would have seized state power and turned the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the socialist system into the capitalist system or a semi-feudal and semi-colonial system. Should this happen, China would have changed its political colour and repeated that historical tragedy which has taken place in the Soviet Union and those countries under the rule of revisionist renegade cliques where capitalism has been restored, and would have returned to the dark days under the rule of the Kuomintang reactionaries.

It is precisely as our great leader Chairman Mao has pointed out: “The great proletarian cultural revolution is in essence a great political revolution under the conditions of socialism made by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and all other exploiting classes; it is a continuation of the prolonged struggle waged by the Chinese Communist Party and the masses of revolutionary people under its leadership against the Kuomintang reactionaries, a continuation of the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.” In the present great proletarian cultural revolution, it is a victory of great historic significance to have dug out these time-bombs buried within our Party and cleared this hidden danger out of our Party and state. This great victory has brought about profound revolutionary changes in the political, ideological, economic and cultural fields in our country.

Holding high the great revolutionary banner of criticism and filled with bitter hatred for China’s Khrushchov and his agents in various places, the hundreds of millions of the revolutionary people have carried on the campaign of revolutionary mass criticism and repudiation on a broader and deeper scale than ever before. They have trenchantly exposed and denounced the towering crimes of this handful of class enemies in opposing the Party, socialism and Mao Tse-tung’s thought and the counter-revolutionary revisionist line they pushed. They have vigorously repudiated the old ideas, old culture, old customs and habits of the bourgeoisie and all other exploiting classes, making a clean sweep of the dregs of capitalism, feudalism and revisionism. “All decadent ideology and other incongruous parts of the superstructure are crumbling as the days go by.”

Acting on Chairman Mao’s teaching “Never forget class struggle,” the broad revolutionary masses have closely combined revolutionary mass criticism with the purifying of the class ranks, dealt sure, accurate, and relentless blows at the handful of renegades, enemy agents and diehard capitalist roaders and at the unreformed landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and Rightists, and ferreted out one by one counter-revolutionaries who had hidden in dark corners making trouble and carrying on disruptive activities. Revolutionary mass criticism and the purifying of the class ranks have destroyed the social basis of the handful of top Party capitalist roaders headed by China’s Khrushchov for restoring capitalism and further enabled the proletariat to gain a dominant position politically, ideologically, theoretically and organizationally.

=== Revolutionary Committees Have Been Founded in All Provinces, Municipalities and Autonomous Regions Except Taiwan Province ===

Our great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: “In every place or unit where power must be seized, it is necessary to carry out the policy of the revolutionary ‘three-in-one’ combination in establishing a provisional organ of power which is revolutionary and representative and enjoys proletarian authority. This organ of power should preferably be called the Revolutionary Committee.”

With the radiant sun of Mao Tse-tung’s thought shining over the length and breadth of the land, revolutionary committees have been established in all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions throughout the country with the exception of Taiwan Province. This presents an extremely magnificent spectacle as all-round victory is being seized in the great proletarian cultural revolution. It is a most joyous event in the political life of the 700 million people of our country.

In the great struggle during the 20 months following the outbreak of the storm of the “January Revolution” in Shanghai, the armymen and civilians throughout the country have fulfilled Chairman Mao’s great call: “Proletarian revolutionaries, unite and seize power from the handful of Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road!” All across the land they have won decisive victory in the great proletarian cultural revolution. This is a great victory for Mao Tse-tung’s thought, a great victory for Chairman Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line!

Our great leader Chairman Mao points out: “There are three elements in the basic experience of the revolutionary committee: It embraces representatives of the revolutionary cadres, representatives of the armed forces and representatives of the revolutionary masses, constituting a revolutionary ‘three-in-one’ combination. The revolutionary committee should exercise unified leadership, eliminate duplication in the administrative structure, follow the policy of ‘better troops and simpler administration’ and organize a revolutionized leading group which links itself with the masses.”

The three-in-one revolutionary committees represent the fundamental interests of the labouring masses of workers and peasants and enable our political power of the proletariat to strike deep roots among the masses. Representatives of the revolutionary masses who have come to the fore during the great cultural revolution, especially representatives of the labouring masses of workers and peasants, are taking a direct part in administering the state and provide from below revolutionary supervision over the organs of political power at all levels. This plays a very important role in ensuring revolutionization of leading groups at all levels so that they always uphold the mass line and serve the people wholeheartedly.

The three-in-one revolutionary committees have strengthened the dictatorship of the proletariat. Thanks to direct participation of the representatives of the Liberation Army in the revolutionary committees at all levels, our dictatorship of the proletariat is better able to stand severe tests of every kind, smash the plots of all domestic or foreign enemies and display greater strength in the cause of socialist revolution and construction. The representatives of the Liberation Army have introduced into the revolutionary committees our army’s glorious traditions, advanced systems and fine style of work personally established and fostered by Chairman Mao. These have helped the revolutionary committees carry through their ideological and organizational revolutionization and developed to a new stage the unity between the army and the people.

There are also representatives of the revolutionary cadres in the three-in-one revolutionary committees. Having a rich fund of experience in waging class struggle, they are invaluable assets to the Party and the people. As a result of the severe tests they have undergone in the great cultural revolution and the education and help given them by the masses, they have further remoulded their world outlook. They play a backbone role in the revolutionary committees. The combination of representatives of the revolutionary cadres and representatives of the Liberation Army and of the revolutionary masses makes it possible to carry out Chairman Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line still better, grasp and implement the policies of the Party still better and correctly organize and lead the masses forward.

The three-in-one revolutionary committees enable our state organs of the dictatorship of the proletariat to meet still better the needs of the socialist economic base and the need to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat and prevent a capitalist restoration.

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== Unprecedentedly Excellent Situation in China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ==

[This article is reprinted from Peking Review, Vol. 11, #44, Nov. 1, 1968, pp. 11-14.]

This is the second and concluding instalment of the article. The first instalment appeared in our last (No. 43) issue. —Ed.

=== Mao Tse-tung’s Thought Has Been Popularized on an Unprecedented Scale, Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Line Has Been Implanted in People’s Minds, and Brand-New Changes Have Taken Place in the Outlook of the People ===

OUR great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: Politics is the commander, the soul in everything.

Vice-Chairman Lin Piao points out: “We must let the hundreds of millions of the people grasp Mao Tse-tung’s thought, put Mao Tse-tung’s thought in occupation of all ideological positions and use Mao Tse-tung’s thought to transform the outlook of the whole society.”

The great proletarian cultural revolution has stirred the proletarian sentiments of the revolutionary masses in their hundreds of millions — their boundless love and esteem for, boundless faith in and boundless loyalty to the great leader Chairman Mao. Activities expressing boundless loyalty to Chairman Mao, to Mao Tse-tung’s thought and to Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line are being widely carried out throughout the nation. From snow-bound vastnesses and forest expanses to frontier regions and off-shore islands, from the cities to remotest mountain villages, the revolutionary people of all nationalities have hung portraits of Chairman Mao in their homes and covered the walls with quotations from Chairman Mao. Every day they read the treasured works of Chairman Mao and sing revolutionary songs. Conscientiously studying and applying Chairman Mao’s works and his latest instructions, they have carried the great mass movement for the creative study and application of Mao Tse-tung’s thought to a new stage.

Chairman Mao teaches: “Running study classes is a good method and many problems can be solved in them.” The whole nation, from the national down to the grass-roots levels, is making a big effort running Mao Tse-tung’s thought study classes of all types, not only in factories, schools and colleges, government and state organs and P.L.A. companies, but also in neighbourhood groups and families. Many white-haired elders and teenagers have become study class activists. Taking Chairman Mao’s latest instructions as their guiding principle in these classes, the broad revolutionary masses and revolutionary cadres fight self and repudiate revisionism and continuously raise their level of consciousness in class struggle and the struggle between the two lines. They have turned their study classes into “furnaces” for tempering their boundless loyalty to Chairman Mao, into classrooms for implementing Chairman Mao’s latest instructions and into battlefields for carrying out revolutionary mass criticism and launching fierce attacks against the class enemies.

The wide popularization of Mao Tse-tung’s thought gives a great impetus to people’s ideological revolutionization. Using the “three constantly read articles” as their maxims, the revolutionary masses consciously put the elimination of self-interest and the fostering of public interest on the plane of the struggle between the two lines and carry the revolution into the depth of their being. Following the examples of Li Wen-chung, “Model in Helping the Left and Cherishing the People,” and Comrade Men Ho, “Good Cadre Boundlessly Loyal to Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Line,” they display a dauntless spirit and defend Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line and Mao Tse-tung’s thought in action even at the cost of their lives. The spring breeze of Mao Tse-tung’s thought has reached into all families and a new socialist practice is being vigorously developed.

=== The Working Class Has Stepped on to the Stage of Struggle-Criticism-Transformation In the Superstructure ===

The great leader Chairman Mao has called on us to “Carry out the tasks of struggle-criticism-transformation conscientiously.” He has also pointed out: “Struggle-criticism-transformation in a factory, on the whole, goes through the following stages: establishing a three-in-one revolutionary committee; carrying out mass criticism and repudiation; purifying the class ranks; consolidating the Party organization; and simplifying the administrative structure, changing irrational rules and regulations and sending office workers to the workshops.”

The universal establishment of revolutionary committees in the various provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the land marks the entrance of the whole movement of the great proletarian cultural revolution into the stage of struggle-criticism-transformation on a nationwide scale. Acting in accordance with Chairman Mao’s teachings, the revolutionary masses on all fronts are conscientiously carrying out the tasks of struggle-criticism-transformation. On the basis of deep-going revolutionary mass criticism and repudiation, they are purifying the class ranks, reforming education, literature and art and all parts of the superstructure that do not conform with the socialist economic base, changing irrational rules and regulations, merging offices, reducing the number of personnel and strengthening the front-line of production.

During this great high tide of struggle-criticism-transformation, the working class, as the main force, has mounted the stage of struggle-criticism-transformation in the superstructure; it is promoting the revolution in education and struggle-criticism-transformation in all spheres of the superstructure. This is Chairman Mao’s great strategic plan. It is a great revolutionary creation and embodies the great historic mission of the working class.

Chairman Mao says: “Our country has 700 million people, and the working class is the leading class. It is essential to bring into full play the leading role of the working class in the great cultural revolution and in all fields of work. On its part, the working class should always raise its political consciousness in the course of struggle.”

The working class is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. Drawing a clear-cut line of distinction between what it loves and what it hates, it is most loyal to Chairman Mao, has the deepest love for the socialist cause and the deepest hatred for all counter-revolutionary words and deeds that oppose socialism and Mao Tse-tung’s thought. The working class has the richest fund of practical experience in the three great revolutionary movements of class struggle, the struggle for production and scientific experiment. The practice of the great cultural revolution has proved that the revolution in education and the struggle-criticism-transformation in all spheres of the superstructure cannot be accomplished by relying solely on students and intellectuals; it is essential to have the participation of the worker masses and to uphold working-class leadership. Only by so doing can we ensure that every militant order from the proletarian headquarters is promptly carried out.

Recently, large numbers of Mao Tse-tung’s thought propaganda teams formed in all parts of the country with the industrial workers as the main body and with the participation of P.L.A. commanders and fighters have, in a planned way and with leadership, entered schools and colleges and all units where struggle-criticism-transformation has not been carried out well. They are giving leadership to the educational revolution in schools and colleges and to struggle-criticism-transformation in all spheres of the superstructure. They are making big efforts to propagate Mao Tse-tung’s thought and forcefully spur the victorious development of the revolutionary great alliance, the revolutionary “three-in-one” combination and struggle-criticism-transformation in these units. As a result, many long-standing and difficult problems have been solved and a vigorous revolutionary atmosphere prevails. All this fully demonstrates the tremendous power of the workers’ Mao Tse-tung’s thought propaganda teams which are a new creation.

Chairman Mao teaches us: “The majority or the vast majority of the students trained in the old schools and colleges can integrate themselves with the workers, peasants and soldiers, and some have made inventions or innovations; they must, however, be re-educated by the workers, peasants and soldiers under the guidance of the correct line, and thoroughly change their old ideology. Such intellectuals will be welcomed by the workers, peasants and soldiers.”

After seizing political power, the proletariat must remould intellectuals according to its own image and build up a contingent of proletarian intellectuals serving the interests of the proletariat. This is essential in consolidating and developing the dictatorship of the proletariat and preventing a capitalist restoration; it is essential in order that the proletariat shall establish a completely dominant position in all fields of ideology and culture. In building such a contingent of proletarian intellectuals, it is imperative to carry out a thoroughgoing proletarian revolution in education, take the revolutionary road of training technical personnel and other intellectuals from among the workers, peasants and soldiers and select students from among the workers, peasants and Liberation Army fighters with practical experience in production. Meanwhile, it is also essential to re-educate the large numbers of intellectuals trained in the old schools and colleges in the past and to win over and unite with the broad masses of intellectuals. Intellectuals can make their contributions in serving the workers, peasants and soldiers only when they advance along Chairman Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line, receive re-education from the workers, peasants and soldiers and integrate with them, completely wipe out the pernicious influence of China’s Khrushchov’s revisionist line on education and thoroughly repudiate and make constant efforts to change the old bourgeois ideas which they have brought with them from their families and schools.

The great proletarian cultural revolution has opened up broader prospects for the intellectuals to integrate themselves with the workers, peasants and soldiers, remould their world outlook and serve the people still better. The working class stepping on to the stage of struggle-criticism-transformation in the superstructure has ushered in a new phase in the proletarian revolution in education. This will certainly accelerate the process by which China’s working class remoulds the intellectuals according to its own image.

=== Cared and Fostered by Comrade Chiang Ching, Splendid Works of Art Shining With the Brilliance of Mao Tse-tung’s Thought Have Been Created on The Literary and Art Front ===

The great proletarian cultural revolution has smashed the sinister counter-revolutionary revisionist line on literature and art backed by China’s Khrushchov and has upheld Chairman Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line on literature and art. Guided by Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line on literature and art and under the direct care of and nurtured by Comrade Chiang Ching, revolutionary artists have created the fine revolutionary modern Peking operas The Red Lantern, Taking the Bandit’s Stronghold, Shachiapang, On the Docks and Raid on the White Tiger Regiment, the revolutionary modern ballets The Red Detachment of Women and The White-Haired Girl and the revolutionary symphonic work Shachiapang. These have all been warmly welcomed and highly praised by the worker, peasant and soldier masses of China. In the wake of these eight model revolutionary theatrical works, two more gems of proletarian revolutionary art were born this year — the piano music The Red Lantern with Peking opera singing and the revolutionary oil painting Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan. Glittering with the radiance of Mao Tse-tung’s thought, these model revolutionary theatrical works and this revolutionary oil painting, new in content and artistically of a high standard, mark the start of a new epoch of China’s proletarian literature and art in which a hundred flowers are blossoming. They usher in a new era of growth in the world’s new, proletarian literature and art.

Thriving Situation in China’s Industrial and Agricultural Production

The great leader Chairman Mao teaches us: Revolution means liberating the productive forces and promoting their growth. “Grasp revolution and promote production.”

The upsurge in revolution promotes the upsurge in production. During the great proletarian cultural revolution, the great thought of Mao Tse-tung has further armed the hundreds of millions of the people and speeded up people’s ideological revolutionization. A tremendous spiritual force has been transformed into an enormous material force, and a thriving situation has emerged in China’s industrial and agricultural production.

On the industrial front, full of a high sense of revolutionary responsibility and political enthusiasm stemming from the realization that “the working class is the leading class,” the revolutionary workers and staff have vigorously grasped revolution and promoted production. A large number of industrial and mining enterprises in Peking, Shanghai and other cities have increased output month by month and many factories have created new production records.

Many workers-turned-technicians, young revolutionary technical personnel and revolutionary cadres of the Shanghai Machine Tools Plant are scaling new heights in technology. In the first half of 1968 alone, they successfully trial produced ten new types of precision grinders, four of which were on an advanced international level. The speed with which these were made and their quality are both unprecedented in this plant.

Following Chairman Mao’s great teachings, “Do away with all fetishes and superstitions and emancipate the mind” and “catch up with and surpass advanced world levels,” China’s iron and steel workers have vigorously thrown off the fetters of the “philosophy of crawling” pushed by China’s Khrushchov, shattered foreign stereotypes and dogmas, and greatly improved the quality and increased the output and number of varieties of steel ingots and rolled steel. In the first three quarters of this year, the Anshan Iron and Steel Company alone introduced 1,000 technical innovations and turned out many new varieties of rolled steel urgently needed by the state. In Shanghai’s steel plants, ontput of steel ingots and rolled steel rose steadily quarter by quarter. These plants, while successfully trial-producing a batch of important new products, have also raised the quality of many products to the world’s advanced levels.

Since the start of this year, reports of new successes have continued to come in from the nation’s coal industry. A succession of new production records and technical innovations have been reported. Compared with April, the average daily output of coal increased in August by 39 per cent. Marked increases were also recorded in development and tunnel-driving.

In 1968, new peak production levels have been created in the textile industries of Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin and the provinces of Hopei, Shantung, Kiangsi and Heilungkiang. These account for nearly one half of China’s textile capacity.

Tested in the class struggle, China’s rural people’s communes are better consolidated and stronger than ever before. On the agricultural front, a vigorous upsurge in grasping revolution and promoting production has taken shape. Resolutely responding to Chairman Mao’s great teaching, “In agriculture, learn from Tachai,” and carrying forward the revolutionary spirit of hard work and self-reliance, China’s hundreds of millions of poor and lower-middle peasants and rural revolutionary cadres, while struggling against the class enemies, have at the same time heroically and tenaciously overcome natural calamities and all sorts of difficulties in production. In the wake of the bumper harvests of the past few years, they have again reaped rich harvests of summer crops and early rice this year. Autumn crops are everywhere growing well and in certain districts prospects are the best for many years. Another rich harvest has been won in such crops and farm products as grain, cotton, cured tobacco, bast fibre, tea, fruit and silkworm cocoons.

China has made tremendous achievements in scientific research and in its national defence industries during the great proletarian cultural revolution. We not only have the atom bomb and guided missile, but the hydrogen bomb as well. Armed with Mao Tse-tung’s thought, the Chinese people have enormous creative powers and they will continue to scale new heights in science, and technology and perform earth-shaking miracles.

On the basis of the vigorous development of industrial and agricultural production, prices remain stable and markets are brisk all over the country. There are thriving scenes everywhere.

The deep and far-reaching influence exercised by the great proletarian cultural revolution in every field is just being revealed. This will certainly create the requisite conditions for China’s new industrial revolution and bring about a still bigger leap forward in the work of socialist construction.

=== The Brilliant Achievements of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Are a Great Victory of Chairman Mao’s Revolutionary Line ===

Vice-Chairman Lin Piao says: “All our achievements and successes are gained under the brilliant leadership of Chairman Mao and are victories of Mao Tse-tung’s thought.”

Reviewing the militant course of the great proletarian cultural revolution in the past two years and more, we deeply realize that every one of our achievements shines with the thought of Mao Tse-tung. All of our successes are the great fruits of all-round implementation of Chairman Mao’s latest instructions and of resolutely carrying out the militant orders of the proletarian headquarters headed by Chairman Mao and with Vice-Chairman Lin Piao as its deputy leader.

“Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman; making revolution depends on Mao Tse-tung’s thought.” This is an incontrovertible truth.

Holding high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung’s thought, the hundreds of millions of revolutionary people of the country are now united more firmly than ever before around the proletarian headquarters headed by Chairman Mao and with Vice-Chairman Lin Piao as its deputy leader, and are forging ahead to win all-round victory in the great proletarian cultural revolution.