Selected Works, Volume IX
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Talk at the General Report Conference of the Centre's Political Work
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
Talk At The General Report Conference
Of The Centre’s Political Work
October 24, 1966
[SOURCE: Long Live Mao Tse-tung Thought, a Red Guard Publication.]
Teng Hsiao-ping is deaf. Whenever we are at a meeting together, he sits far away from me. For six years, since 1959, he has not made a general report of work to me. He always gets P’eng Chen to do the work of the Secretariat [of the party] for him. Do you say that he is able? Nieh Jung-chen[1] says: ‘That bloke is lazy.’
My view of the situation is that it is big in the middle and small at both ends. Only Honan puts the word ‘dare’ ahead of all others; most people put the word ‘fear’ in first place; only a very few people firmly place the word ‘revolt’ in front of other words. Anti-party and anti-socialist people include Po I-po, Ho Ch’ang-kung, Wang Feng, and also Li Fan-wu.[2]
Real ‘four-kind’ cadres (the rightists[3]) make up only one, two, or three per cent (The Premier, [Chou En-lai] says: ‘More than that now.’) Never mind how many more. We shall suppress these (p’ing-fan). Some will not be kept where they are; they should be transferred to other places.
In Honan one [party] secretary does productive work while five others receive [the revolutionaries]. In the whole country there is only Liu Chien-hsun[4] who has written a big-character poster to give support to the minority [the reactionaries]. That is a good thing.
What about Nieh Yuan-tzu[5]? (K’ang Sheng says: ‘She must be protected.’ Li Hsien-nien[6] says: ‘All those who wrote the first big-character posters should be protected.’) Good!
(On the question of the great ‘get-together’ (ta ch’uan-lien)[7] the Premier says: ‘It should be done with proper preparation.’) What preparation? Where cannot one find a bowl of rice.[8]
There are different views on the [present] situation. In Tientsin half a million people went to Wan Hsiao-t’ang’s funeral and they thought the situation was excellent. In fact that was a demonstration against the party, an attempt to repress the living by using the dead.
Li Fu-ch’un[9] has been asked to rest for a year. Even I do not know who is in charge of the Planning Commission. [Li] Fu-ch’un respects the [party] discipline. He told some things to the Secretariat which were not reported to me. Teng Hsiao-p’ing respects me but keeps me at arm’s length.
Notes
Ho Ch’ang-kung (1898- ) studied in France and Belgium and joined the CPC in 1921. In 1929 he was under P’eng Teh-huai and in the following year the C.O. of the 8th Red Army. He supported Chang Kuo-t’ao in 1935 and served as the head of the Organisation Department of Chang’s ‘Centre’. In 1952 he was the deputy Minister of the 2nd Ministry of Heavy Industries and two years later, the deputy Minister of the Ministry of Geology.
Wang Feng (1906-) was born in Shensi and studied at Peking University. Since 1949 he had been working in Northwest China and held the post of the first secretary of the CPC Kansu branch.
Li Fan-wu (1909- ), a deputy Minister of the Ministry of Forestry in 1952 and the secretary of the CPC Heilungkiang branch.
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
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