To Comrade Kang Sheng:

There are some minor additions, mainly in the fifth issue [III], please consider and decide.

Mao Zedong
February 24, 6:30 p.m.

For the sake of world peace,
for the interests of revolution, should we unite the workers, peasants, revolutionary intellectuals, national bourgeoisie’s anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary factions, and all other forces that can be united in countries around the world, to form the broadest united front against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, and carry out a common struggle, or should we place all hopes on U.S.-Soviet cooperation?

IV
Although the differences have developed to such a serious degree today, the Communist Party of China is still willing to exert every effort to restore and strengthen unity. In your letter of November 29 last year, you merely called in empty terms for a cessation of the open polemics, without putting forward any concrete measures to resolve the issues.
[Note: Refers to "On the Question of Cessation of the Open Polemics" in the reply letter. Mao Zedong’s additions are printed in Song typeface in Section V of this piece.]

measures. We now propose to you the following concrete measures for resolving the issues, and ask you to consider them and then reply:

V
In the course of this great polemic, the Communists, the proletariat, the working people, the revolutionary intellectuals, and others who are interested in opposing imperialism and the reactionaries of various countries throughout the world have become increasingly awakened, their eyes have grown sharper, their revolutionary enthusiasm has greatly surged, and their own theoretical level has been significantly raised.