Comrade Boda:
Very well written.
Mao Zedong,
January 14

[1] This comment was written on a manuscript submitted for review by Chen Boda, a
member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee,
head of the Central Cultural Revolution Group, and editor-in-chief of Red Flag magazine, on
January 14, 1967. When submitting the manuscript for review, Chen Boda wrote: "Comrades
Wang Li and Guan Feng have written a commentary for Red Flag. Please read it!" Wang Li
and Guan Feng were then members of the Central Cultural Revolution Group of the CPC
Central Committee and deputy editors-in-chief of Red Flag magazine. The article "Proletarian
Revolutionary Newspapers Unite," later published under the name of this magazine's
commentator in the second issue of Red Flag on January 16, 1967, quoted Mao Zedong:
"Seizing power from the handful of capitalist roaders in power within the Party is a
revolution under the conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat, a revolution in which
one class overthrows another, a revolution in which the proletariat eliminates the
bourgeoisie."