Comrade Kang Sheng:

This article[2] may be worth a read. I have already looked over the philosophical and literary piece you mentioned, written by an American professor, and I find him to be someone who completely fails to understand Lenin's philosophical thought.

Mao Zedong
August 19

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[1] Kang Sheng, then alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Central Secretariat, and deputy head of the Central Culture and Education Group.
[2] Refers to the article "Lenin's Critique of Machist Relativism — Notes on Studying *Materialism and Empirio-Criticism*" by Zhang Fan, published in *Guangming Daily* on August 16, 1963. The article addressed three issues: 1. The opposition between dialectics and relativism; 2. The opposition between scientific development and relativism; 3. The inevitable consequence of relativism leading to idealism. Zhang Fan is the pen name of Zhang Enci, a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University.
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