Chapter 85 The main contradiction in the country at this stage [1]

(June 6, 1952) Comrade Romay[2]: This article has been read, slightly modified [3], please review.After overthrowing the landlord class and the bureaucratic capitalist class, the main internal contradiction in China is the contradiction between the working class and the national bourgeoisie, so the national bourgeoisie should no longer be called the middle class. Mao Zedong June 6 at 3 am Published from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is a comment written by Mao Zedong in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's "Decision on the Work of Democratic Parties (Draft)".

[2] Luo Mai, namely Li Weihan (1896-1984), was born in Changsha, Hunan.At that time, he was the head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. [3] Mao Zedong’s modification mainly changed the references of “middle class” and “middle class” in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s “Decision on the Work of Democratic Parties (Draft)” to “bourgeoisie, urban upper class and petty bourgeoisie ( That is, small capitalists who employ a few workers or shop assistants), some elements with a capitalist color differentiated from the landlord class, and intellectuals associated with these classes and strata.”