Mao Zedong: Don't say my Thought "is a brand-new stage in the development of Marxism-Leninism"

 

Criticism of the draft communiqué of the 12th Plenary Session of the 8th Expanded Central Committee of the Communist Party of China[1]

(October 1968)

1

Issued for discussion by comrades in plenary.

2

This sentence is not to be used here.[2]

3

There is a slight modification.[3]

 

 

(Translated from Collected Works of Mao Zedong, Vol 50, pp 305-06)

 

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[1] This Part 1 and 2 were written on the draft communiqué of the Twelfth Plenary Session of the Eighth Expanded Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which was submitted for review on 28 October 1968; this Part 3 was written on the draft communiqué submitted for review on 30 October. This communiqué was adopted by the Plenary on 31 October and published in the People's Daily on 2 November.

[2] In the draft communiqué submitted for examination on 28 October 1968, it was written: ‘The Plenum is of the opinion that the great victory of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has further proved that Mao Tse-tung's thought is a brand-new stage in the development of Marxism-Leninism, and that it has further proved the extremely far-reaching significance of Comrade Mao Tse-tung's doctrine of continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat. When Mao Zedong reviewed the draft communiqué, he deleted the sentence ‘further proves that Mao Zedong Thought is a brand-new stage in the development of Marxism-Leninism’ from the text and wrote this criticism. In addition, in this paragraph of the draft communiqué, it was stated that Mao Zedong Thought ‘is the only guiding ideology for all the work of the whole Party, the whole army and the whole country’, but Mao Zedong, when reviewing the draft communiqué, deleted the word ‘only’ from the text.

[3] Mao Zedong's amendments to the draft submitted for review on 30 October 1968 mainly consisted of deleting the following sentence: ‘The great popularity of Mao Tse-tung's thought among the masses of the country as a whole is a very great achievement of this Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.’