This post is used to share supplementary materials for the temporary reading club and reflections on the articles read
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I read the section “Guide to Ideological Struggle” and have some personal reflections.
At the same time, because the bankrupt bourgeoisie constantly replenishes the ranks of the working class, bringing bourgeois ideology into the working class, and this ideology is also instilled into the consciousness of the working class through the most advanced modern science and technology and various means commonly used by the bourgeoisie, Marxist ideological struggle is therefore very necessary for the contemporary working class.
Let me talk about some things I have seen around me. There is a female worker around me who is usually very kind and friendly, very cheerful, and when communicating with others, she never hides any intention to exploit others. She is quite addicted to romantic TV dramas and novels, and has been heavily poisoned by the Confucian ideology of the “three obediences and four virtues” promoted by the revisionists. Because romance dramas promote the oppression of women as reasonable, distort the narrative, portray ideal men who do not exist in reality, and instill slave mentality in women, telling them what kind of slave is qualified and what kind of slave can get a very, very good master. Probably because she was taught by feudal patriarchal education since childhood and later influenced by this spiritual opium, this female worker thinks she must wear makeup and lose weight for work. When talking to me about views on love, she said that the best man is one who obeys and listens to the woman in everything. She also thinks that older people with higher official positions have authority and a higher status than herself, so she does not dare to resist. Moreover, these romance dramas and novels generally contain various pornographic scenes, instilling pornographic thoughts in women, making them think “men are all like this,” which further facilitates men treating women as sexual tools. She and I are just sincere friends having normal conversations. When she expressed those erroneous thoughts, I should have told her that such views are very harmful. However, as a subordinate man, I did not take the worker’s backward thoughts seriously and instead used this situation to chat about some private topics, betraying the worker’s sincere feelings. Doing so actually further strengthened the worker’s bourgeois ideology.
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“Social Practice Determines the Worldview of Each Class” Reflections + Brief Analysis
Ideological struggle is part of class struggle and has a material basis: the Cultural Revolution, the Yan’an Rectification Movement. Ideological struggle is a struggle over the line—whether the bourgeois ideology takes power and follows the capitalist path or the proletarian ideology takes power and follows the socialist and communist path. Struggling against the ideology of the exploiting class means struggling both ideologically and practically. For example, the struggle against Liu Shaoqi not only overthrew his black ideology and black line but also called on the broad proletariat to carry out class struggle against him as a party bourgeoisie, overthrowing his power, fighting him down, and thoroughly defeating this revisionist. Ideological struggle is not a “self-revolution in the mind” but arises from material conditions and class practice. Different classes, due to their different social positions, have different practices and therefore different worldviews. Workers, who participate in collective labor for years, are more likely to develop ideas of unity and mutual help. Capitalists, who daily ponder how to “cut wages” and “lay off people,” naturally develop the worldview of exploiters. The petty bourgeoisie, wavering between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, constantly schemes for speculation and profiteering, naturally timid, indecisive, and selfish. Therefore, what people do shapes what they think. Farmers look at the sky, stock traders watch the market, workers are exploited daily and naturally recognize the system’s unfairness—this is how worldview comes from practice. The proletariat’s practice is collective labor, so ideologically they pursue unity and dedication. They are the most self-sacrificing and revolutionary class. For example, in the Tonggang incident, the worker masses collectively struggled, united as one, repeatedly saw through the dog manager’s attempts at reconciliation, and then fought the capitalists, killing that dog manager. Also, in the Daqing oilfield, oil workers, represented by Wang Jinxi, risked their lives to contribute to the socialist motherland’s petroleum industry, embodying the proletariat’s selflessness and public spirit. Overall, workers have no assets, rely on unity and mutual support, suffer the most severe oppression, and are the most combative class. The proletariat does not seek personal promotion or wealth but wants everyone to have food to eat, work to do, and a good life, expressing “our workers have strength.” The bourgeoisie live by exploitation; their worldview is self-centered, characterized by profit-seeking. They worship money above all and, for profit, disregard others’ lives, their every pore filled with dirty black blood. For example, Foxconn workers jumped to their deaths after long overtime, but the company only mentioned “efficiency red lines.” Food delivery workers died suddenly, and the companies secretly handled it, then put on a show to calm public anger. Xu Jiayin embezzled company assets to buy private jets but refused to pay workers’ wages, exploiting the people with Zhongxiu and cheating homebuyers. The bourgeoisie can sell anything, even human lives for money. They talk about “rule of law” and “freedom,” but it’s all for making money. As long as they can earn money, they don’t care about their reputation. The petty bourgeoisie are oppressed by capital but dream of getting rich, want to become bourgeois, hate the bourgeoisie, yet dare not fight, showing strong instability. They superficially support justice but dare not struggle; at critical moments, they sell out the proletariat for personal gain and side with the bourgeoisie. In the Pucheng student fall incident, the family settled with the government for compensation, the masses’ protests were betrayed and abandoned by them, the movement failed, and countless masses “disappeared” or “committed suicide.” The petty bourgeoisie are like grass on a wall, swaying whichever way the wind blows. They shout for fighting one day and take money to surrender the next. They only want “self-preservation,” never “win-win.” Even when they sometimes support the proletariat and oppose the reactionary bourgeoisie, it is because their private property is harmed; essentially, they still support private ownership and oppose public ownership, mildly criticizing the bourgeoisie while largely defending them.
Comparison of Seven Aspects Reflected by Different Worldviews
These seven aspects constitute the fundamental starting point of “how people see the world and how they behave.” From major matters to minor ones, whether one can talk about unity or sacrifice all comes from worldview.
In summary, only the proletarian worldview represents the direction of human liberation. The purpose of ideological struggle is to transform people’s worldview, eliminate non-proletarian thoughts, and transform them into progressive proletarians. Revolutionary martyrs like Jin Xunhua, who sacrificed to protect public property, and the “Iron Man” Wang Jinxi, who risked his health for oil construction, are models of the proletarian worldview. Revolution is not about words but about a heart that serves the people. As long as everyone establishes the proletarian worldview, our society can be transformed!
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What article is this? Is it part of the Thought Struggle Guide?
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The original text “On one hand, they vocally oppose authority and pursue ‘freedom’; on the other hand, when faced with real mass struggles, they demand ‘leaders’ to suppress the masses; verbally they curse despotism, but in reality, they secretly admire strongmen; they fear organizations, yet fantasize about having a ‘wise ruler’ to lead the way.” This belongs to the petty bourgeois worldview.
Proudhon was from the French petty bourgeoisie and advocated that small producers and individual artisans should form the basis of socialism. He opposed large-scale industry and also opposed the dictatorship of the proletariat, fantasizing that everyone would be the master of their own small workshop, i.e., a peasant-style socialism. Proudhon opposed state power and any centralization, believing that power itself is oppression. Yet he fantasized about establishing a natural order without a state but well-organized—how to achieve this? Through moral preaching. Proudhon’s “anti-authority” was dissatisfaction with big capital and despotic governments, but he did not trust the masses. He advocated that petty bourgeois citizens should each obey the law and work hard to get rich, essentially fearing the dictatorship of the proletariat. His “anti-authority” ultimately was just opposition to the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Bakunin was even more outrageous; superficially anti-authoritarian, but in fact engaged in secret totalitarianism. Bakunin openly criticized Marx’s organization of the International Workingmen’s Association, accusing it of being a centralized tyranny. But he secretly established the “Alliance,” a highly secret counter-revolutionary circle, acting as emperor over the workers, oppressing the proletariat. He opposed the proletariat organizing social production through state means, calling it red bureaucratic tyranny. He rejected any temporary revolutionary government, fantasizing that the people would awaken overnight and spontaneously realize a free federation. In reality, like the leftist faction’s theory of sudden revolution, he thought that after years of his own indulgence shouting slogans, the workers would rise up to follow him, treating workers and the proletariat as fools. In fact, he was unwilling to unite with the proletariat or go among the workers, yet wanted to be the workers’ emperor. Bakunin feared not bourgeois oppression, but the proletariat coming to power and dictating over him, the counter-revolutionary.
In summary, Bakunin and Proudhon essentially opposed Marxism, corresponding to these two great reactionaries opposing the dictatorship of the proletariat, vividly reflecting their counter-revolutionary true nature. This is similar to what the guide to ideological struggle says about petty bourgeois intellectuals: “What they dislike most is not the exploitative system itself, but the ‘uncivilized methods.’ They want the world to be orderly, but who commands it, they never clarify—because deep down they know they fear the masses taking power.”
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Criticism and self-criticism are the basic forms of ideological struggle
First of all, the revolutionary team is not about liberalism and harmony, where everyone ignores their own mistakes and pretends everything is fine. It is necessary to struggle against the ideological errors of all members and deeply point out the key issues. One cannot stay on the surface. Of course, it should not be a brutal attack; it is not about condemning someone just because they made a mistake, but about helping comrades to awaken and progress. Also, self-criticism is not about blaming oneself arbitrarily or putting on a label without addressing the causes of the errors or solutions. Self-criticism requires reflection and raising one’s own ideological awareness. Moreover, criticism and self-criticism are necessary, as Chairman Mao once taught us.
In “On the United Front,” Chairman Mao taught: “Whether or not there is serious self-criticism is one of the significant marks distinguishing us from other political parties.” “The rectification movement, with the purpose of ‘punishing the past to prevent future mistakes and curing the disease to save the patient,’ was effective because we carried out correct, not distorted, serious, not perfunctory criticism and self-criticism during this movement.” In the report of the Seventh National Congress of the CPC, Chairman Mao taught: “Communists must always be ready to uphold the truth, because any truth conforms to the interests of the people; communists must always be ready to correct mistakes, because any mistake does not conform to the interests of the people.” In “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People,” Chairman Mao again emphasized: “Marxists should not fear any criticism and should let people speak.” In summary, the working people, the proletariat, speak the truth: when mistakes are made, admit them; when others make mistakes, help point them out; pointing out errors, analyzing errors, exposing the essence of errors can lead to improvement and ideological progress. Anyone who does not allow the proletariat to speak and point out each other’s mistakes is hiding something. We must strive for unity, but not mutual flattery; we must dare to expose each other’s mistakes and mutually “cure the disease and save the patient.” -
Must overcome the peaks and troughs in ideological struggle
The peaks and troughs refer to some comrades who, after joining the revolution, sometimes are very revolutionary and verbally hold the most extreme views, but after a few days become passive and indifferent, with enthusiasm waxing and waning. The peak is an overestimation of oneself, thinking that without a long ideological struggle, one has already won completely; the trough is underestimating ideological problems, thinking one has already overcome them, so when ideological problems return, one feels heavily struck and gives up. There are real examples of this. In China’s spontaneous workers’ movements, this often appears. For example, during the Foxconn workers’ strike, it started with dozens and later grew to tens of thousands. But these people lacked ideological struggle, their thoughts degenerated, they took money and left, naturally leading to failure. This is also the reason many Marxist forums in China have failed—ultimately because of no ideological struggle. Doing revolution, ideological struggle can be understood as farming: there is spring sowing and autumn harvest, droughts and floods; one cannot expect smooth sailing but must struggle hard. In farming, struggle is against nature, such as building irrigation projects; in ideological struggle, it is against all exploitative class ideologies. Revolution is not based on momentary passion but on grasping the truth of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, gritting teeth, working daily and yearly to achieve victory. -
To overcome spiritual opium, the struggle must go to the end
Spiritual opium makes people numb, escape reality, and avoid class struggle; it is the bourgeoisie’s art and literature. The art and literature of a class serve the interests of that class. For the bourgeoisie, it naturally includes things like idol dramas, anime, two-dimensional games that corrupt young people’s morals, immerse them in pornography, numb their feelings, and entertain them to death. The great revolutionary teacher Marx taught us long ago: “Religion is the opium of the people.” Today’s entertainment-to-death and passive consumerism are the spiritual opium of the new era. Many young people are addicted to anime, morally degenerate into fascist patriarchal men, become lackeys of modern revisionism, waste money on digital images every day, and do not care about their own or the proletariat’s oppression. Working women are poisoned by reactionary art and literature, which uphold patriarchy and naturally portray women as subordinates to inferior men. These poisoned Chinese women do not think about how to struggle but instead depend on inferior men, suffering a lifetime under modern revisionist Nazis! Therefore, to do revolution, these harmful poisonous weeds must be thoroughly discarded; otherwise, one will be influenced by them, separated from the revolution, and become petty bourgeois rightists indulging in daily debauchery.
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Is the failure of Foxconn workers due to ideological decay?
Some people received the mid-term repair subsidy and then left directly, but ended up being monitored by the mid-term repair team.
It’s not appropriate to say it’s ideological decadence. This movement started as a struggle for economic interests. The workers lacked unified leadership and were deceived and divided by the revisionists. They didn’t realize that the revisionists’ feigned compromise and subsidies were meant to disperse and suppress them.
Book Club Preparation:
Words: Lackey (lou second tone, luo neutral tone), flowing water does not rot, door hinge does not worm (du fourth tone)
Preparation experience: read aloud once or multiple times
Image association: Director Bai and Zhao Sihai from “The Fiery Age”, Xiao Jiye and Lin Yusheng from “The Young Generation”
Use yourself and Sanshui as main materials, combined with the leftist circle, party history (Gao, Lin, and Zhu)
No critical stance: use machines to criticize Sanshui and self-criticism to criticize others (Sanshui and JXS)
Good examples from the book club session
Analyze at the end of paragraphs combined with members’ materials
Suggestion: those who can speak should speak as self-criticism
Question: Why is the root of the theory of sudden change the petty-bourgeois free and lax habit?
Does the road of decline mean being unpromising?
Expand on Kobayashi Takiji (Selected Works 1, page 40, original text page 30)
Definition: All selfish behaviors starting from individualism are low taste; all spiritual products spreading various bourgeois ideas starting from individualism are spiritual opium
Supernatural powers, labor people’s background, recommend criticizing ACG (animation, comics, games) materials
Degeneration of thinking: example of parasite (my father)
Stop and think about the mistakes and how serious the harm is
Member preparation materials:
(Beixi)
Summary
Reflections on three sections of reading and related materials:
Criticism and self-criticism are the basic forms of ideological struggle
We live under capitalist society, inevitably invaded by bourgeois ideology, so we must regularly self-examine and reflect to see if bourgeois ideas exist in our minds to transform them. Self-criticism should be long-term and repeated; otherwise, bourgeois ideas will gradually infiltrate our minds, eventually turning us into indifferent and numb petty-bourgeois workers or drifters. We cannot think self-criticism alone is enough; it must be combined with action to make life regular and planned, not continue the petty-bourgeois free and lax lifestyle or bourgeois exploitation or parasitic lifestyle. In ideological struggle among comrades, we should not have “all harmony” but treat it seriously to save comrades’ political lives. When reforming comrades, we should adopt a gentle, healing, and corrective attitude, not a rough or perfunctory one, which harms relationships and revolutionary activities.
For example, Beixi previously criticized JQR’s obsession with virtual idols without linking it to reasons or corresponding thoughts in JQR’s mind, using a rough approach (thinking JQR’s obsession was due to petty-bourgeois erotic thoughts reflected somewhat in virtual idols, ignoring other factors; plus Beixi and JQR had little contact and shallow communication, so it was hard to analyze and criticize JQR’s ideological roots correctly), and because Beixi’s petty-bourgeois thoughts were not fully transformed and had a playful attitude, he mocked JQR to some extent.
Must overcome the “peaks and troughs” in ideological struggle
The “peak period” of ideological struggle is due to petty-bourgeois fanaticism. Beixi experienced this; initially, when contacting Swamp Soldier, he had strong petty-bourgeois fanaticism about Marxism, thinking he had become a Marxist. But he was still a leftist. Later, during the “peak” period of ideological struggle, and then the “trough” period, his petty-bourgeois thoughts gradually exposed: fascination with bourgeois literature and its forms (anime, short videos, video games) and free and lax lifestyle, stopped reading, indifferent and cold to comrades, leading to rupture. (Swamp also had bureaucratic tendencies wanting leadership, but that was secondary; the main issue was petty-bourgeois free and lax, numb, cold, extreme individualism, selfishness.)
Spiritual opium harms deeply; we must fight and win
Bourgeois spiritual opium is based on promoting individualism, erotic thoughts, and other reactionary ideas, corrupting petty-bourgeois and working people’s minds while beautifying the bourgeoisie. Its ultimate goal is to numb people, making them unable to distinguish right from wrong in social reality, immersed in spiritual opium, unable to think normally. Beixi was a heavy victim of spiritual opium, especially addicted to short videos, bourgeois music, bourgeois erotic anime and films, spending over ten hours a day on spiritual opium. When away from it, Beixi was at a loss, not knowing what to do. When eating or bathing, his mind repeatedly played reactionary art scenes or melodies, making it hard to plan life or discern right from wrong, filled with individualistic erotic and violent thoughts, fantasizing about erotic women in reactionary art and real life, unable to think like a normal person, only thinking about how to be a slave owner or parasite exploiting women as tools for life and desire. After joining factory labor and forums, this improved but remnants remain, needing long ideological and practical struggle to discard and criticize completely. Spiritual opium twists, darkens, and poisons thought, does not help talent growth or social understanding. Those still addicted or unable to fully escape spiritual opium, including Beixi, must continue the struggle, becoming fighters and critics of spiritual opium.
(1967)
Summary
Today’s book club preview:
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Criticism and self-criticism are basic forms of ideological struggle
First, the revolutionary team is not about liberalism and harmony where everyone ignores mistakes. We must struggle against ideological errors of all members and deeply point out key issues, not stay superficial. Nor should we be cruel; mistakes are not to be condemned but to help comrades awaken and progress. Self-criticism is not just blaming oneself without analyzing causes or solutions; it requires reflection and raising ideological awareness. Criticism and self-criticism are necessary, as Chairman Mao taught.
In “On the United Front,” Mao said: “Whether there is serious self-criticism is a significant mark distinguishing us from other parties.” “The rectification movement was effective because we conducted correct, not distorted, serious, not perfunctory criticism and self-criticism.” In the report of the 7th Party Congress, Mao said: “Communists must always be ready to uphold truth because any truth serves the people; they must be ready to correct errors because any error harms the people.” In “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People,” Mao emphasized: “Marxists should not fear any criticism and should let people speak.” In short, the working people and proletariat speak the truth: admit mistakes, help others point out mistakes, analyze and expose the essence of errors to improve and advance thought. Those who do not allow proletarians to speak or point out errors have guilty consciences. Unity is needed, but not mutual flattery; we must dare to expose each other’s errors and “heal and save each other.” -
Must overcome peaks and troughs in ideological struggle
Peaks and troughs mean some comrades are very revolutionary at times, holding extreme views, then become passive and indifferent. Peaks are overestimating oneself, thinking victory is immediate without long struggle; troughs underestimate ideological issues, thinking they have won, then get hit and give up. This happens in reality, e.g., spontaneous worker movements in China: Foxconn strikes started with dozens, grew to thousands, but without ideological struggle, people became ideologically degenerate, took money and left, leading to failure. This is why many Chinese Marxist forums fail: lack of ideological struggle.
Revolutionary ideological struggle is like farming: spring sowing and autumn harvest, with droughts and floods. It is not smooth sailing; we must struggle, like building irrigation to fight nature. Ideological struggle is fighting all exploiters’ ideas. Revolution is not a momentary passion but holding Marxism-Leninism-Maoism truth firmly, persevering daily and yearly to succeed. -
To defeat spiritual opium, we must fight to the end
Spiritual opium numbs people, makes them avoid reality and class struggle; it is bourgeois art. Each class’s art serves its interests. Bourgeois art includes idols, anime, games corrupting youth morals, indulging in eroticism, numbing to death. Great revolutionary Marx taught: “Religion is the opium of the people.” Today’s entertainment to death and consumerism is new spiritual opium. Many youths addicted to ACG become morally degenerate fascist patriarchal men, tools of modern revisionism, wasting money on digital images daily, ignoring their and the proletariat’s oppression. Working women are poisoned by reactionary art supporting patriarchy, shaping women as subordinates to low-status men, making them not think about struggle but depend on these men, suffering under modern revisionist Nazis all their lives! Therefore, to revolutionize, we must discard these harmful weeds completely or be influenced and deviate from revolution, becoming petty-bourgeois rightists indulging daily in lust.
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This is a very brief draft. It is recommended to familiarize yourself with the mentioned films and literary works in advance. The parts in bold in the Bexy and 1967 materials are the ones I selected, and the parts in parentheses are those I think have issues and need to be discussed and explained.
This sentence has a big problem. When I wrote it at the time, I didn’t realize that the underlying logic of this sentence is a patriarchal logic that excuses the lower male."
Thanks to Chuyang for the reminder, otherwise a big mistake would have been made.
Weren’t you criticized at People’s Square? I just posted this. Also, I personally find it strange and don’t intend to use this part. Also, the parentheses refer to the sentence before the target.
After being criticized yourself, recognizing the seriousness of the problem and correcting the mistake is good.
“Communists are not afraid of their own weaknesses because we are not afraid to speak out about them and are able to learn to overcome them.” This is from page 13, second paragraph of the original text. Starting from here, a piece of material is quite suitable to illustrate: The great proletarian teacher Lenin pointed out at the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks): “The proletariat is not afraid to admit which things it has done very well and which things it has not done well during the revolutionary process. All revolutionary parties that have perished in the past did so because they were arrogant and proud, unable to see the source of their own strength, and afraid to speak out about their weaknesses. But we will not perish because we are not afraid to speak out about our weaknesses and are able to learn to overcome them.”
Furthermore, a counterexample can illustrate why the bourgeoisie fears criticism: The reason why all exploiting classes cannot have self-awareness is determined by their reactionary class nature. Because all exploiting classes are decadent and declining classes. For them, recognizing the world as it truly is and admitting their own decay and decline is equivalent to declaring their own demise. Therefore, they stubbornly adhere to reactionary idealism and metaphysical worldviews, always overestimating their own strength and underestimating the strength of the people, attempting to reverse their inevitable doom. As a result, when understanding things and analyzing situations, they are always blinded by greed, indulging in fantasies and mistaking illusions for reality, which leads to disgraceful outcomes. Historically, all reactionary ruling classes have always regarded emperors, generals, and “heroes” as born “saints,” called themselves “masters of the world” and the masters of history; while regarding the masses as born “slaves,” “rabble,” or “fools.” They attempt to deceive the masses with such nonsense to maintain their reactionary rule, but the result is the opposite. Under the resistance and struggle of the masses, they all became historical criminals and were swept into the dustbin of history one by one.
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Sorry shovel, I didn’t see your content. Is it an additional supplement? It wasn’t used as reading club material.
No, I forgot to remind you. I came back from school quite late, so I posted it late, and I haven’t finished organizing it yet.
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Persist in the struggle, continue the revolution
Revolution does not end after establishing socialism; ideological struggle must continue, and class struggle must also continue, otherwise capitalism will be restored. The great revolutionary mentor Marx taught us: “The revolutionary struggle at every stage of history must continue in new forms.” The great leader Chairman Mao also taught us: “One class overthrowing another is a long and complex struggle process.” If class struggle is abandoned halfway, the examples of China and the Soviet Union are right before our eyes. It must be understood that class enemies will not disappear automatically, nor will their ideology; their influence must be thoroughly eliminated through struggle. In this struggle, comrades must be treated with long-term revolutionary patience, adhering to “curing the disease and saving the patient,” helping them solve ideological problems. Enemies must be fought with uncompromising spirit, thoroughly criticized and denounced to prevent any future harm. For the new generation of youth, especially the left-wing petty bourgeoisie, we cannot give up on their ideological transformation just because they have been brainwashed by spiritual opium; they (including myself and everyone participating in this temporary study group on the forum) must engage in proletarian labor practice to transform themselves into proletarians. At the same time, it must be understood that struggle is not about cursing but about exposing, criticizing, educating, and transforming. Political insults are a sign of a person’s incompetence and are useless. -
Reform plan, strive for strength through change
Revolution cannot be just slogans; there must be a planned “revolution of the mind,” otherwise, how is it different from those leftist circles who just shout slogans for pleasure? Planning is not only about the material allocation of a planned economy; ideological work must also be planned, with education and organizational programs tailored for each class. First, culture is the vanguard of class struggle; the exploitative class’s literature and art have poisoned the people since the birth of class society, so they must be overthrown. Overthrowing them is simple because the reactionary literature and art of the exploiting class, due to its reactionary nature, is inherently poor in quality and can only compensate with quantity. Using Marxist literary and artistic works, which have both quality and quantity, can effectively defeat reactionary works. This ideological struggle over literary and artistic works cannot wait until the masses awaken; it must start with the revolutionaries themselves, engaging in ideological struggle and allowing the advanced to lead the backward, transforming the advanced further to lead more backward people, thereby mobilizing more people to become advanced revolutionary intellectuals.
These two chapters summarize the fundamental direction and future tasks of proletarian ideological struggle. The main points are threefold: first, revolution is not about reasoning but about struggle; struggle must not be abandoned. Second, revolution cannot rely on waiting for the “masses to awaken” but must bring advanced theory to the masses and conduct ideological transformation within revolutionary organizations now. Finally, one must dare to criticize, sincerely transform, organize the masses, and lead the struggle. Even if it is just a dormitory, a workshop, or a QQ group, it can sow the seeds of revolution.
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