Chapter 108 The perniciousness of the "black-line dictatorship of literature and art" theory cannot be underestimated

I walked into the People's Daily today and was deeply moved.As we sit here, accusing and criticizing the "black line dictatorship of literature and art" theory concocted by the "Gang of Four", I can't help but think of the old comrades and friends who have been cruelly persecuted by the "Gang of Four" over the years, Lao She, Guo Xiaochuan, Hou Jinjing, Ma Ke, Comrades like Sun Weishi.They are no longer alive, so they cannot join us in exposing and criticizing the crimes committed by the "Gang of Four" in engaging in the "black-line dictatorship of literature and art".

For more than ten years, the "Gang of Four" has held this black flag, brutally suppressed revolutionary literary and artistic workers, and practiced barbaric bourgeois cultural despotism in the literary and artistic circles: only their poisonous weeds are allowed to proliferate, and the fragrant flowers of the proletariat are not allowed to bloom. ; Only their fallacies are allowed to run rampant, and literary and art workers and the broad masses of the people are not allowed to fight back. The "black-line dictatorship of literature and art" theory of the "Gang of Four" stifled socialist literature and art and confused the thinking of many people. We must not underestimate or underestimate its pernicious influence and influence.

The theory of "black line dictatorship in literature and art" has not only poisoned some literary and art workers, but also poisoned a large number of cadres and the masses, especially many young people and even young children.In 1974, the traitor Jiang Qing reached into the field of nursery rhymes. She gave speeches, "commented" and ordered some people to take the lead in "creating" nursery rhymes, and published the children's songs in a prominent position in newspapers. children's song.What is Jiang Qing's "enthusiasm" for?It turns out that she wants to use nursery rhymes to oppose the party and poison our next generation!I have a grandson who came back one day and told me that he wrote a nursery rhyme.I took it to see what was written on it were "Little Red Soldiers, Criticize XX" and "Weird Talks and Weird Theories Are Eliminated".I asked him who he criticized for the nursery rhyme?He couldn't explain clearly; ask him what "strange talk" is?He said he didn't know. The "Gang of Four" killed people with pens, even innocent children, how cruel their hearts are!Not only that, but the "Gang of Four" told lies, empty words, and utter nonsense, which also caused great harm to the style of writing.Recently I saw a poem that began with "the stars are twinkling and the moon hangs high" and ended with "the sky is full of red clouds and the sky is blue".Since it is "the bright moon hangs high", how can there be "stars twinkling"?It is also "red clouds all over the sky" and "blue sky for thousands of miles", which one should people believe? The "Gang of Four" kept saying that they wanted to "smash the black line of literature and art", and repeatedly advertised themselves as "the standard bearer of the literature and art revolution". Isn't it very clear what road they want to lead our literature and art to?

Over the years, the "Gang of Four" has used the "black line dictatorship of literature and art" to discuss this knife, and wants to cut socialist literature and art into a "blank space"; using the "black line dictatorship of literature and art" to discuss this stone has crushed the majority of literary and art workers. angry.The Party Central Committee smashed the "Gang of Four" in one fell swoop, and we literature and art workers were liberated for the second time; now we are deeply exposing and criticizing the "black line dictatorship in literature and art" theory, breaking the spiritual shackles imposed on us by the "Gang of Four".I want to show my revolutionary and desperate energy, redouble my efforts, work hard, and contribute my strength to the prosperity of socialist literary and artistic creation!

(This article was originally published in People's Daily on December 4, 1977.)