Conversation with Rang Mingde[1]

(1935)

You must read widely and extensively! Comrades like you come from a bitter background and have experience in struggle, but your level of education is not very high. You especially should read more books. In this way, you can make fewer empiricist mistakes.

[1] Rang Mingde (1912–2000) was then studying at the Second Branch of the Red Army University, serving as secretary of the general branch of the First Regiment. This is part of Mao Zedong’s conversation with Rang Mingde.

Mao Zedong in northern Shaanxi.