Speech at the Graduation Ceremony of the Second Brigade of the Third Term of the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University[1]

(April 30, 1938)

The Eighth Route Army should all become a model for the whole nation. The role of a model does not lie in verbal statements but in actual deeds; it does not lie in raising both hands in approval of Marxism, but chiefly in putting Marxism into practice in reality. He urged everyone to learn the spirit of the Foolish Old Man who removed the mountains, and completely move away the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and capitalism.

[1] This is part of Mao Zedong’s speech at the graduation ceremony of the Second Brigade of the Third Term of the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University.