Comments and Revisions on Jiang Qing’s Speech Draft at the Enlarged Meeting of the Military Commission [1]

Return to Jiang Qing.
Approved, proceed accordingly.
(2)
Reviewed, deleted a little.
(3)
(April 1967)

Mao Zedong
April 16

The Chairman said, this article reflects the redistribution of property and power within the landlord class during the early period when the feudal system replaced the slave system. Such redistribution was carried out continuously, and the saying "The benevolence of a gentleman lasts only five generations before it is cut off" conveys precisely this meaning. We do not represent the exploiting classes.