On
“An Interrogation of the Editors of ‘Literature and Art Daily’”
Comments and Revisions on an Article
(October 27, 1954)
To be forwarded immediately to Comrade Deng Tao [2] of the People’s Daily for publication as is.
Mao Zedong
October 27
Here, the journal Literature and Art Daily is closely linked with bourgeois idealism and bourgeois celebrities, while it remains very distant from Marxism and the rising forces that propagate Marxism. Is this not obvious?
[1]
The article “An Interrogation of the Editors of ‘Literature and Art Daily’” was published in the October 28, 1954 issue of the People’s Daily; its author was Yuan Shuipai. When reviewing this article, Mao Zedong, in addition to adding the second paragraph of this text, also made several minor textual revisions.
[2] Deng Tao was then the editor-in-chief of the People’s Daily.