Protect and support the Leftists,
build up and expand the ranks of the Leftists
(1966)
Protect the Leftists, support the Leftists, build up and expand the ranks of the Leftists.
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This sentence of Mao Zedong’s was quoted in boldface in an article entitled “The ‘February Outline’ Is a Black Programme for
Bourgeois Dictatorship” (signed Ren Lixin), published in *Renmin Ribao* on
June 11, 1967. The article stated: “Chairman Mao, from the very outset of launching this unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, pointed out
time and again: Protect the Leftists, support the Leftists, build up and expand the ranks of the Leftists.”