Chapter 69 Strengthen mutual learning, overcome complacency and complacency[1]

(December 13, 1963) All central bureaus, provincial, municipal, and district party committees, military commissions, party committees of all central people's organizations, party committees and party groups of all ministries and commissions: The Hunan Provincial Party Committee Comrades Li Ruishan and Hua Guofeng wrote a report on their visit to Guangdong's agricultural production on November 6, 1963[2] and the Hunan Provincial Party Committee's December 1963 report. An instruction [3] written on the 7th of May and sent to you for research.The Central Committee believes that this attitude and method of humbly learning from the good experience of other provinces, cities, and districts is very good, and it is one of the important methods for developing our country's economy, politics, ideology, culture, military affairs, and party affairs.They are self-sufficient, arrogant and complacent, and do not adopt the dialectical analysis method of Marxism (one is divided into two, there are both achievements and shortcomings and mistakes) for the work in the area under their control. They only study the achievements and do not study the shortcomings and mistakes.I only like to listen to words of praise, not words of criticism.As for the work of other provinces, cities, districts, and other units, there is little interest in organizing capable senior and middle-level cadres to study it humbly and carefully, so as to integrate it with the situation in the province, city, district, and unit, and improve it. Improve.Always limited to the narrow world of the region and unit, unable to open one's horizons, not knowing that there are other new worlds, this is called Yelang's arrogance.For foreigners, outsiders, and people sent by the central government, only the good ones are allowed, not the bad ones.Only talk about achievements to them, and don't talk about shortcomings and mistakes. If you want to talk about it, you don't talk about it deeply.The Central Committee has repeatedly raised this question to comrades, believing that a communist must possess the Marxist dialectical thinking of the dichotomy between achievements and shortcomings, truth and mistakes.Things (economy, politics, ideology, culture, military, party affairs, etc.) always develop as a process.And any process is developed through the mutual connection and struggle between the two contradictory aspects.This should be common sense among Marxists.However, many comrades at the central and local levels seldom think and work with this viewpoint seriously.Metaphysical thinking methods have existed in their minds for a long time and they cannot be freed.The so-called metaphysics is the denial of the unity of opposites, the struggle of opposites (dichotomy), and the mutual transformation of contradictory and opposite things to their opposites under certain conditions. Seeing no shortcomings, only willing to listen to good words, not to listen to criticism, I do not want to be criticized (dichotomy against myself), and I am even more afraid of others' criticism.There are dozens of ministries in the central government. Obviously there are a few ministries with better work performance and work style, such as the Ministry of Petroleum, but other ministries turn a blind eye and never go there to investigate, study and ask for advice.There are many factories, mines, enterprises, institutions, and scientific research institutes and their personnel that are under the management of a ministry, but the higher-ups don’t know about them, so they can’t encourage people to learn from those units.Comrades, the comrades who have committed metaphysical errors mentioned by the Central Committee here refer to some comrades, not all comrades.However, it should be pointed out that a large number of good comrades have been suppressed by high-ranking and well-paid comrades, pampered, complacent, self-satisfied, and fond of bourgeois metaphysics, that is, bureaucrats, and must be reformed now.Comrades who are not humbly and earnestly analyze the local units themselves, analyze other units in other places, and reject the dialectical analysis method of Marxism, they must give comradely advice and criticism in order to change the bad situation.Make it a system to learn from the good experience, good style, and good methods of other ministries, provinces, cities, districts, and units.This question is a big one, please discuss it.In the future, it will be discussed at the Central Work Conference and the Central Plenary Session.In the past, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee did not conduct investigations and studies for a period of time. Instead, it issued many instructions subjectively.From 1961 onwards, they began to change, so that things got better.But they thought it was far inferior to Guangdong and Shanghai, so they sent a large number of cadres at the provincial, prefectural, and county levels, as well as provincial and municipal cadres, to form two study groups to study in Shanghai and Guangdong respectively.On this point, please pay attention to research, whether it can also be done in the same way.The Central Committee believes that not only can but should be done in this way.If you have different opinions, please raise them.

central December 13, 1963 Published according to the documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is an inner-party directive drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. [2] Li Ruishan and Hua Guofeng, the secretaries of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, reported to the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China: After visiting the agricultural production of Guangdong Province, I feel that Guangdong Province has been insisting on large-scale water conservancy, promotion of improved seeds, reasonable dense planting, and establishment of labor colleges. On the one hand, in implementing the policy of taking food as the key link, comprehensive development, and diversified management, in increasing the output per unit area, in grasping water, fertilizer, and seeds, in grasping economic policies, and following the mass line in agricultural production , mass movement, are very prominent.Through the visit, everyone feels that their horizons have been broadened, their minds have been liberated, their minds have been broadened, their confidence has been enhanced, and their motivation has been inspired.Also learned a lot of valuable experience at the same time.The experience of Guangdong should be combined with the specific conditions of Hunan, and be applied and promoted according to local conditions.

[3] The Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China forwarded the reports of Li Ruishan and Hua Guofeng to the local, city, and county committees in Hunan, as well as the provincial party committee departments and the party groups of the bureaus. Party committees and factory and mine party committees.Let everyone look in the mirror, start discussions, and apply the experience learned from advanced regions and advanced units to our own work.Learning from other places' experience should be combined with summarizing your own experience.At the same time, it is particularly important for leaders to conduct pilot projects in person.Only by setting up a model can we drive a comprehensive and achieve more significant results.