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5. Destroy unity based on sentiment—sentimental unity is petty bourgeois unity
—we build our unity on Party interests.
8. We must employ in our work for the Party the same kind of interest we have
in love and literature—love and literature are the foundation of romanticism.*
11. We must studiously avoid academic-type study—academic-type study denies
that theory is born of practice.
13. We must pay attention to the Russian language aside from our studies—we
absolutely must not maintain the erroneous idea that we should first study
Russian before we study ideology.
16. We must strive to eliminate the [bad habits of the] intelligentsia—the bad
habits of university students and the entire petty bourgeoisie.. ..
17. We must at all times and everywhere mutually correct each other's errors of
thought and action.
18. When we have opinions, we must express them—if we hide our opinions and
do not express them, we would be standing outside the organization and encouraging
counterrevolutionary [tendencies].
22. Every comrade must develop close relations with at least two other comrades
(exclusive of comrades belonging to the same small unit) in order to achieve
solidarity among our comrades.
23. The organization's interest is the individual's interest. We must not obstruct
the organization's advance because of individual interest.. ..
24. ... We must have the psychology of thoroughly trusting the organization—it
is counterrevolutionary conduct not to trust the organization.
25. Our lives and our will must not be based on individual beliefs or the individual
will. . . . There is absolutely no such thing as individual life or individual
free will.
26. We must strictly criticize our comrades' errors and humbly accept our comrades'
criticism .... Wherever he may be, every Communist must at all times
criticize and supervise his comrades in accordance with the relations of mutual
supervision (the mutual relations of Communists mean mutual supervision).
.. . 4
Articles four and five required that members of the CCP disown
and denounce their parents, friends, and relatives, much as was the case
in mainland China after the Communists came to power in 1949. The
leaders of the Moscow branch stirred up a relentless struggle against all
kinds of sentimentalism.
Article eight denied the Party members love and literature, because
* While this translation is impeccably accurate, the meaning of this article might be
conveyed by the following paraphrase: "We must employ in our work for the Party the
kind of enthusiasm tiiat we are now wasting on love and literature; and we must abandon
our enthusiasm for love and literature, for they are the foundations of romanticism, which
can destroy Party organization."
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