Revision of a Paragraph in the Draft Text (1)
(March 1966)

As emphatically pointed out by the 1957 Declaration and the 1960 Statement of the Meetings of Representatives of Communist and Workers’ Parties, [2] while opposing modern revisionism, the main danger, we must at the same time resolutely oppose and overcome dogmatism and sectarianism within our own two Parties. And most important of all, we must resolutely oppose the modern revisionist trend of thought within our own two Parties, a trend of thought which is a reflection within our Parties of the anti-communist, counter-revolutionary and anti-popular trend of thought of the bourgeoisie at home and abroad. It would be very dangerous if we fail to take note of this and adopt measures to overcome it. When the modern revisionists with the Soviet leading group at their head attack us, they do not call us revisionists, but call us dogmatists and sectarians. What this allegation of theirs points to is precisely genuine Marxism and the unity of genuine international revolutionary parties and revolutionary people, and nothing else.

[1] At the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a delegation of the Japanese Communist Party headed by Comrade Kenji Miyamoto, General Secretary of the Central Committee, paid a friendly visit to the People’s Republic of China from February to April 1966. During the visit, the delegations of the two Parties held talks, and a draft joint communiqué was prepared by the drafting groups of the two delegations. This text is Mao Zedong’s revision of a paragraph in the draft communiqué submitted for review on March 27, 1966, in which the text printed in Song typeface was added by Mao Zedong. Later, no agreement was reached on this draft communiqué.

[2] The 1957 Declaration refers to the Declaration of the Meeting of Representatives of the Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Socialist Countries, adopted at the Meeting of Representatives of Twelve Communist and Workers’ Parties held in Moscow from November 14 to 16, 1957. The 1960 Statement refers to the Statement of the Meeting of Representatives of the Communist and Workers’ Parties, adopted at the Meeting of Representatives of Eighty-One Communist and Workers’ Parties held in Moscow in November 1960.