Chapter 55 Letter to Xie Juezai[1]

(December 1, 1944) Comrade Juezai: This article [2] is very good, there are some additions and deletions, please consider it. Regarding the change of the Senate Council to the People's Representative Conference[3], I think it will have a good impact both internally and externally. Please discuss it with other comrades.The Central Committee would like to discuss this point and other issues in this session of the Senate, so please report to Comrades Gao, Lin, and Luo[4]. Political democracy has its own content, and economy is its material basis, not the content of political democracy.Culture is a spiritual thing, it contributes to political democracy, and it is not the content of politics.Please consider these.

People's various rights, in our case, can only be said to have realized a few important parts, for example, the management of the government, the right to work, the right to speech, publication, and assembly, etc. under the constraints of existing material conditions.As for the right to rest, it is generally out of the question in China at present, especially for workers and peasants.The right to education and the right to care for old and sick people are still taking the first step.The Constitution of the Soviet Union is a product of several five-year plans, and in many parts of China it is still an ideal, not a fact.Also, in our documents of this kind, it is inappropriate to mention the Soviet Constitution to avoid misunderstanding.

salute! Mao Zedong On December 1, it was published according to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Xie Juezai (1884-1971), a native of Ningxiang, Hunan.At that time, he was the vice chairman of the Senate of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. [2] Refers to the work report of the Permanent Council of the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region drafted by Xie Juezai, which he is going to deliver at the second session of the second session of the Senate Council of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.This council meeting was held from December 4th to 19th, 1944.

[3] On December 2, 1944, Mao Zedong wrote to Xie Juezai again, saying: "The name change of the Council of Representatives is related to the liberated areas. The central government has not yet discussed it, so please don't mention it for now." [4] Gao, refers to Gao Gang (1905-1954), a native of Hengshan, Shaanxi, who was Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Lin refers to Lin Boqu, who was then chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government.Luo, refers to Luo Mai, that is, Li Weihan (1896-1984), a native of Changsha, Hunan, who was then Secretary-General of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government.