I see that you are thinking about agriculture, while I am thinking about the struggle of lines.
Of course, the struggle of lines in agriculture you mentioned also involves struggle of lines,
but there is a bigger line. Agriculture alone is not enough. We must also consider the east,
west, south, north, and centre, the party, government, military, civilians, and schools. We
must focus on industry and agriculture, but at present we should focus mainly on the
struggle of lines. Agriculture also has line issues.
China is also strange in that the Chinese party has not split. Chen Duxiu organized the
"Leninist Left Opposition" with 81 people and later turned to Trotskyism. There was a Liu
Renjing who had met Trotsky6. He was younger than me and now lives in Beijing. Luo
Zhanglong set up a new central committee but failed. He is now a professor in Hubei. He is
from Liuyang and his current name is Luo Aojie. Qu Qiubai and Li Lisan were not considered
splits, but they made mistakes in the line. Wang Ming organized 28 and a half Bolsheviks and
seized power in the whole party for four years. He held two plenary sessions of the Central
Committee, namely the Fourth and Fifth Plenary Sessions. The Zunyi Conference was an
enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau, which overthrew Wang Ming's leadership. Zhang
Wentian was in charge. In fact, Zhang Wentian was the convener and I was in charge. I was
officially in charge ten years after the Zunyi Conference. I was elected chairman at the
"Seventh National Congress" in May 1945. I published two books, "The Struggle between
Two Lines" and "Since the Sixth National Congress". They disarmed. Zhu Guotao was on the
Long March and set up his own central committee, but it did not come to anything.
Gao and Rao wanted to seize power, but failed. Some people said that I was responsible for
the three-year disaster, but the officials did not agree with the measures I wanted to take.
Later, the Beidaihe meeting discussed the situation and class contradictions, and then things
got better.

6 Liu Renjing (1902 –1987), was one of the early leaders of the Communist Party of China, and a Trotskyite. In
September 1922, he went with Chen Duxiu and Qu Qiubai to the Soviet Union to attend the Fourth Congress of
the Comintern held in Petrograd and spoke on behalf of the CCP. In the autumn of 1926, Liu Renjing went to
study at the Lenin Institute in Moscow, and later attended the seventh enlarged meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Comintern. In 1929, Liu Renjing left the Soviet Union and went to Turkey to meet Trotsky,
hoping to get his confirmation to become the leader of the Chinese Trotskyites, but Trotsky refused. After
returning to China, Liu was expelled from the CCP. In October 1949, the People's Republic of China was
founded, and the following year, Liu Renjing travelled from Shanghai to Beijing to admit his mistake to the
Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. On December 21, 1950, the People's Daily published
Liu Renjing's review of his mistakes, but believed that he did not fully repent. Liu was later assigned to teach at
Beijing Normal University, but due to opposition from students, he had to be transferred to work at the
People's Publishing House. He died after being hit by a bus in Beijing in 1987.



I published the minutes of the Guangzhou Military Region's three supports and two
militaries symposium, and added the words "seriously study" in the central government's
comments, without fearing that the major military regions would be careless.
The Lushan Conference was a struggle between the two headquarters. The surprise attack at
Lushan was planned, organized, and had a program. The attack did not last for a day and a
half, but for three days, the 23rd, 24th, and 25th. It was to negate the line of the "Ninth
National Congress" and the three agenda items of the Second Plenary Session of the Central
Committee, and to change it to a discussion of genius and the establishment of a state
President. They were against Zhang Chunqiao in name only, but in fact they were against me.
It was me who crossed out genius and proposed not to establish a state President. I am not a
genius. I read Confucius' books for six years, went to the First Middle School and the First
Normal School, read capitalist books for seven years, and only read Marxism-Leninism in
1918.
This briefing (Briefing No. 6 issued at the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth Central
Committee) is a counter-revolutionary briefing. This is my personal opinion, and the Party
Central Committee will have to discuss it in the future.
There is a purpose in saying that there is a great potential to blow up Lushan Mountain. Only
the Air Force can blow it up. They distributed the quotations called geniuses, but not to
Comrade Li Desheng. Several of them were from the First Front Army on the Jinggang
Mountain. Once in front of them, I said to Li Desheng, “You are so stupid. We are not from
the same mountain top. How can I give you the treasure?” The quotations extolling genius
that were read aloud at meetings were never discussed beforehand; no one knew which
book or page they came from. It was all falsehood.
I am Cheng Yaojin's three axes7, throwing stones, undermining the corner of the wall, and
adding sand. I was very happy to see the report of the 38th Army, and I approved it at that
time. The 24th Army, the 21st Army, and the 38th Army were severely punished, especially
the 38th Army. I also approved the documents of the Jinan Military Region on fighting
against arrogance and Liu Zihou's self-criticism, which was throwing stones. Reorganizing the
Beijing Military Region was digging out the corner of the wall. They did not insert the Central
Guard Corps and the Beijing Garrison. They added sand, including Li Desheng and Ji Dengkui.
It was still too little, so I asked Li Xiannian to join the Military Commission's working group.
You can't ignore the military. You don't have to attend the meeting. People in Central and
South China also need to attend. You are concurrently the political commissar and party
secretary of the Guangzhou Military Region. You don't have to attend the meeting. You have

7 Cheng Yaojin (589 –665), was a native of Shandong Province, and a general of the Tang Dynasty. He was
reputed to have a three-bladed axe shaped so as to perfect the vertical head-splitting, horizontal head swiping
and sudden turn-around movements. The reference to Cheng Yaojin’s three axes became a metaphor for good
luck in battle. Mao refers here to political movements, not military ones.



to be involved in military affairs. You can't just be a civilian official, you have to be a military
officer.
We must correct the line, unite to strive for greater victory, "learn from past mistakes to
avoid future ones” and “cure the sickness and save the patient". Some can be saved, some
may not be saved, it depends on practice. Comrade Wang Dongxing was in charge of the
General Office of the Central Committee and the Guard Corps, which had more than 7,000
people. He spoke about his mistakes several times to more than 1,000 people. It's good to
be willing to correct mistakes.
Don't engage in mountain topism, factionalism kills people. The whole country must unite,
but there are still a few principles. Three methods, throwing stones, digging the wall, and
adding sand. Some words cannot be listened to. One word is worth ten thousand words. Can
you believe it? Some words are not worth even half a word. It's worth nothing. In fact, some
don't count, such as the issue of genius and the president of the country. I have said it many
times, but I don't say a word. Chen Boda's words are worth ten thousand words.