“Youth Self-Education Series” Editors’ Note
“Youth Self-Education Series” Editors’ Note
Chairman Mao teaches us that “it is necessary for educated youths to go to the countryside to be reeducated by the poor and lower-middle peasants.” In the past few years, in response to Chairman Mao’s great call, thousands upon thousands of educated youths rushed to China’s countryside and frontier with revolutionary enthusiasm. They have earnestly studied works by Marx, Lenin, and Chairman Mao, actively participated in criticizing Lin Piao and rectifying the style of work, energetically fought in the front line of the Three Great Revolutionary Movements, resolutely followed the path of allying with the workers and peasants, and made new contributions to the building of a socialist countryside. Their awareness about class struggle and line struggle has been greatly elevated. Countless proletarian heroes have suddenly emerged, and a whole new generation of revolutionary youths is maturing healthily. This is a great victory for Chairman Mao’s revolutionary line.
Following Chairman Mao’s instruction that “we must concern ourselves with the growth of the younger generation” and in order to meet the need for self-study of educated youths who go to the countryside and mountainous areas, the “Youth’s Self-Education Series” was written and published. This series is guided by Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought and includes fundamentals of philosophy, social sciences, natural sciences and selections from the works of Lu Hsun. We hope its publication will contribute to the self-study of educated youths who go to the countryside and mountainous areas, help them to further elevate their awareness about line struggle, their political consciousness, and their cultural and scientific levels so that they can advance along the road of being both red and expert and better fulfill the needs of building a socialist new countryside and other enterprises.
We are grateful to the support given to the publication of this series by the units concerned and the authors, and we welcome the suggestions and criticisms of readers of this series so that we can make improvements.
Shanghai People’s Press