A Passage Discussing the "Necessity" of the Cultural Revolution
(1968)

This Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is absolutely necessary and most timely for consolidating the dictatorship of the proletariat, preventing the restoration of capitalism, and building socialism.

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This passage, with the preface "As Comrade Mao Zedong has said," was printed in boldface in the "Communiqué of the Enlarged Twelfth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China," adopted on October 31, 1968. The communiqué was published in *Renmin Ribao* on November 2.