Comrade Boda:

Comments on the Key Points of Self-Criticism [1]
(December 26, 1966,
28th)

I don't know if all comrades of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee and the Central Cultural Revolution Group have this document [3]? Please discuss whether this document is correct and whether it has the value of being issued to various localities for reference? Because many comrades in various localities still do not have the determination to make honest and sincere self-criticism in a realistic manner, it is extremely necessary to help them. What do you think?

Mao Zedong
December 26th

[1]
This article is first, a comment on the key points of self-criticism made by Li Xuefeng, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, First Secretary of the North China Bureau, and First Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, on December 16, 1966, at the North China Bureau organs; this article is second, a comment on the revised draft of these key points of self-criticism submitted by Li Xuefeng on December 27.
[2]
Boda refers to Chen Boda, who was then a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Central Cultural Revolution Group.
[3]
Refers to the key points of self-criticism made by Li Xuefeng on December 16, 1966, at the organs of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, mainly criticizing his so-called directional and line errors in leading the Great Cultural Revolution movement in Beijing for about 50 days from early June to mid-July. On December 29, the CPC Central Committee forwarded these key points of self-criticism by Li Xuefeng.