7. Chapter 8 of the Outline of Philosophy, "The Process of Cognition," translated by Ai [Siqi], that is, Chapter 4 of Selected Philosophical Writings.⁵
8. Chapter 6 of A Course in Dialectical Materialism, "Materialist Dialectics
and Formal Logic," translated by Li [Da].
9. The Introduction to Kawakami Hajime's An Outline of Economics (translated by Chen Baoyin).
The above [X][X]⁶ may be read later.
10. The entire History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The last item may be read later, and the methods of reading and discussion are
the same as for the previous items.

Mao Zedong Wang Jiaxiang

Study Tasks and Study Methods for the
Current Year

(November 4, 1941)

To group leaders and deputy group leaders of high-level study groups in all
locations:

1. As a first step, the Central Study Group and all high-level research groups
everywhere are to take as their scope Leninist political theory and our Party's
political practice since the Sixth Party Congress.
2. The study materials have been announced over the Party radio station (please
inform us as to whether or not they have been received). It has been decided that
within this year the two books, Dimitrov's report to the Seventh Comintern Congress and Lenin's Left-wing Infantilism, plus the eighty-three documents issued
since the Sixth Congress, are to be read through once. The aim of such a reading
through is to acquire an initial general idea so as to be able to enter the stage of
deeper study by next spring.
3. During the period of reading through the material, detailed discussion will
not be pursued, but all group leaders must take responsibility for adopting suitable
measures to check up on whether all group members have actually read the designated material and for answering the doubts and questions that arise in the course
of reading.
4. There will certainly be instances everywhere in which many of the eighty-three documents issued since the Sixth Congress are not available,¹ in which case
those that are available may be read first, or the group leader may report on the
ones he can remember.
5. Research on methods of thought will not be carried out for the time being.

Central Study Group

Mao Zedong Wang Jiaxiang

Our source for this text is Wenxian he yanjiu, 1984, p. 15 of the annual volume.

--- Notes

¹. As indicated in a note to the text of September 29, 1941, the volume containing these
materials was published for internal use only in December 1941.

⁵. Regarding this and the following two items, see the notes to the text of September 29,
1941.
⁶. The editors of the Chinese source suggest that the two characters missing at this point
in the original may have been "three items."