(May 1967)
No matter how many factions there are, they boil down to two major factions. As long as they are not counter-revolutionaries, we must do work among them, and gradually their viewpoints will grow closer and closer, not farther and farther apart.

Implementing the supply system and a communist way of life is a Marxist-Leninist style of work, which stands in opposition to the bourgeois style of work. In my view, the rural style and guerrilla habits are still good. We fought and won a war for thirty-two years; why can’t we build communism with them? Why should we institute a wage system? This is a concession to the bourgeoisie. It is using the rural style and guerrilla habits to disparage us, and as a result, individualism has developed, and we have forgotten the principle of persuasion rather than coercion. Should the army take the lead in restoring the supply system?

We must eradicate bourgeois ideas of legal right. For example, contending for position, contending for rank, demanding overtime pay, higher wages for intellectual workers and lower wages for manual laborers, and so on—all these are remnants of bourgeois ideology.

"To each according to the value of his labor" is stipulated by law, and this too is a bourgeois thing. In the future, should there be distinctions of rank when riding in cars? It is not necessary to have special cars. We can make some allowances for the elderly and the physically weak, but for the rest, there should be no distinctions of rank. Our Party is a Party that fought continuously for over thirty years, practicing the supply system over a long period, growing from several hundred thousand people to several million, right up to Liberation. In the early period, we generally lived a life of egalitarianism, everyone worked very hard, fought very bravely, relying not at all on material incentives but spurred on by the revolutionary spirit.