The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has begun a new stage. The main
feature of this new stage is the great unity of the proletarian revolutionaries,
seizing power from the handful of party leaders who are taking the capitalist
road and diehards who adhere to the bourgeois reactionary line.297 This struggle to seize power is the overall counterattack of the proletariat against the
297  The phrase “diehards who adhere to the bourgeois reactionary line” was added by Wang
Li. Mao corrected this phrase after he discovered it, calling it an ultra-left slogan.

bourgeoisie and its agents in the party after 17 years of widespread attacks. This
is a nationwide class struggle on all fronts, a big revolution in which one class
overthrows another class.