Comments on the People’s Daily Editorial Draft
“Modern Revisionism Must Be Criticized”
(May 4, 1958)

To Comrade Chen Boda:
This document, No. 121, is very well written; please have it issued immediately.

Chen Boda, who at the time served as Director of the Political Research Office of the CPC Central Committee.
Mao Zedong
May 4

[2] Refers to the proof copy of the People’s Daily editorial “Modern Revisionism Must Be Criticized,” submitted to Mao Zedong for review on May 4, 1958. The editorial was written to commemorate the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. Its main theme was to criticize the “Draft Program of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia,” adopted at the recently concluded Seventh Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. The editorial was published on May 5, 1958.