Chapter 3 Epilogue

The ten-year catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution" has caused China to suffer.China has suffered not only in the past ten years, but before that, since the second half of 1957, we have made "Left" mistakes. ——Deng Xiaoping's talk with Ethiopian President Mengistu on June 22, 1988. The third volume of "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping", page 269. Be wary of the right, but mainly prevent the "left"... In the history of our party, the idea of ​​"left" is deeply rooted. "Left" has a revolutionary color, and they use big hats to frighten people, as if the more "left", the more "revolutionary".In the process of socialism, the errors that occurred in the twenty years from 1957 were mainly "left".

——Excerpt from Jiang Zemin's "Report at the Fourteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China"