Cultivate the Critical Spirit, Make Working People Masters of Society

“Mounting the Platform to Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius”


In a revolutionary society, people must have ease of mind to wage criticism. The understanding of “contradictions among the people” must be very expansive - broader than that understood during the previous, first wave of proletarian revolution.


“The Workshop Is a Battlefield”


The workplace must cease to be a place in which working people are subordinated - they must become masters of society, and as part of that, must assume a leading role in places of production. This mustn’t merely be a slogan: the right to strike and to recall management must be legally protected. As revolutionary shipping workers said in China, “Be Masters of the Wharf, Not Slaves to the Tonnage!”