Reporter asks: What is your view on what the younger generation, living under conditions much more comfortable than before, will become?

　　Chairman: I myself have no way of knowing, and I am afraid no one has any way of knowing. But two possibilities can be conceived: one is to continue the revolution, perhaps developing towards communism. The other is that perhaps the youth of today will negate the revolution and behave badly, which is to say, perhaps they will make peace with imperialism, lead the remnant elements of the Jiang Jieshi clique back to the mainland, and take refuge with the small number of counter-revolutionary elements that now exist in the country.

　　Of course, I do not hope that they will be counter-revolutionary, but future matters must be decided by the future generation according to the conditions of their time. What kind of conditions those will be, we cannot yet foresee, just as the broad knowledge possessed by the people of the era of bourgeois democracy surpassed that of the people of the feudal era. In the long run, the future generation ought to be more intelligent than we are; the question is how they will judge, not for us to judge. The youth of today, and their future youth, will evaluate the results of the Chinese revolution according to their own judgment.