Take the Summarization of Experience Seriously [I]
(1969)
Take the summarization of experience seriously.
When you go to a unit to understand the situation, you must understand the whole process of the movement—how it began, how it evolved, what it is like now, how the masses have carried it out, how the leadership has carried it out, what contradictions and struggles arose, what changes later occurred in these contradictions, how people's understanding has developed, and from this, identify the things that have the nature of laws.
[I] In the editorial "On the Summarization of Experience" in the combined issue of issues 3 and 4 of the journal Red Flag, published on March 14, 1969, the words in the first and second paragraphs of this text are quoted in bold type following the phrase "Chairman Mao has recently taught us once again."
The People's Daily reprinted this editorial from Red Flag on March 15.