The original "Cultural Revolution Five-Person Group" [1] and its administrative offices were
abolished, and a new Cultural Revolution Group was established, subordinate to the
Politburo Standing Committee.
The purpose of this major struggle was to criticize Wu Han and a large number of other anti-
Party and anti-socialist bourgeois representatives (such bourgeois representatives existed in
the Central Committee and its various organs, as well as in every province, city, and
autonomous region).
Can there be any equality on such fundamental issues as the proletariat's struggle against
the bourgeoisie, its dictatorship over the bourgeoisie, its dictatorship in the superstructure,
including in all cultural spheres, and the proletariat's continued elimination of bourgeois
representatives who have infiltrated the Communist Party and wave the red flag to oppose
it? For decades, the old social democratic parties, and for a decade or more, modern
revisionism, have never allowed any equality between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
They fundamentally deny that thousands of years of human history are a history of class
struggle, that the proletariat's class struggle against the bourgeoisie, and that the
proletariat's revolution and dictatorship over the bourgeoisie are fundamentally denied. On
the contrary, they are loyal lackeys of the bourgeoisie and imperialism. Together with them,
they uphold the bourgeois ideology of oppression and exploitation of the proletariat and the
capitalist social system, and oppose the Marxist-Leninist ideology and the socialist social
system. They are a group of anti-communist and anti-people counter-revolutionaries. Their
struggle with us is a life-and-death struggle; there is no question of equality. Therefore, our
struggle against them can only be a life-and-death struggle. Our relationship with them is
absolutely not one of equality, but one of one class oppressing another, a relationship of
dictatorship or despotism exercised by the proletariat over the bourgeoisie. It cannot be any
other relationship, such as so-called equality, peaceful coexistence between the exploited
and the exploiting classes, or a relationship of benevolence, righteousness, and morality.
Without destruction, there can be no construction. Destruction is criticism, it is revolution.
Destruction requires reasoning, and reasoning is construction. With destruction at the
forefront, construction is inherently part of it.
In fact, those capitalist-roaders in the Party who support the bourgeois academic cliques,
and those bourgeois representatives who infiltrate the Party to protect them, are the big
party cliques who are ignorant of books, newspapers, and the masses, possess no academic



knowledge, and rely solely on "arbitrary decisions and the use of power to oppress others"
to usurp the Party's name.
…………..or when, although the struggle has already begun, the vast majority of Party
committees still lack understanding, are not serious, and are ineffective in leading this great
struggle……
They have allowed all sorts of monsters and demons to run wild, filling our newspapers,
broadcasts, publications, books, textbooks, lectures, literary works, films, dramas, folk art,
fine arts, music, dance, and so on for years. They have never advocated for proletarian
leadership, nor have they ever sought approval. This contrast reveals the true position of the
authors of the outline.
...Hold high the banner of the proletarian Cultural Revolution, thoroughly expose the
bourgeois reactionary stance of those so-called "academic authorities" who are anti-Party
and anti-socialist, thoroughly criticize the reactionary bourgeois ideologies in academia,
education, journalism, literature, and publishing, and seize leadership in these cultural
spheres. To achieve this, we must simultaneously criticize and purge the bourgeois
representatives who have infiltrated the Party, the government, the military, and various
cultural circles, and even transfer some of them from their posts. In particular, we must not
trust these individuals to lead the Cultural Revolution, as many have done, and still do, and
this is extremely dangerous.
The representatives of the bourgeoisie who have infiltrated the Party, the government, the
army, and various cultural circles are a group of counter-revolutionary revisionists. Once the
time is ripe, they will seize power and transform the dictatorship of the proletariat into a
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Some of these individuals have already been identified,
while others have not. Some, such as Khrushchev, are being trusted and groomed to be our
successors. They are currently sleeping beside us. Party committees at all levels must pay full
attention to this.

[1] Cultural Revolution Five-Man Group and Office: In July 1964, the CPC Central Committee
established a "Five-Man Group" to carry out Cultural Revolution work under the leadership
of the Political Bureau and Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. The group leader was
Peng Zhen (First Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee), the deputy group leader
was Lu Dingyi (Vice Premier of the State Council, Minister of the Central Propaganda
Department and Minister of Culture), and the members included Kang Sheng (Secretary of
the CPC Central Secretariat), Zhou Yang (Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda
Department), and Wu Lengxi (President of Xinhua News Agency and President of People's
Daily). This "Five-Man Group" was not initially called the "Cultural Revolution Five-Man
Group" and was always referred to as the "Five-Man Group". The term "Cultural Revolution
Five-Man Group" only appeared when the "Cultural Revolution Five-Man Group's Report