Mao on Professors in 1958 (22 March) talks at Chengtu (p116-7 Talks and letters):
… of entering into the spirit of it, or really understanding it’ (p117).
best bit:
… ‘Naturally, we cannot go out tomorrow and beat them up … we have to make friends with them’
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Fascinating reflection from a revolutionary. Now would that be compromising revolutionary principles or a revolutionary strategy to win over the intellectuals?