InPraiseoftheRedGuards(红卫兵赞)《红旗》杂志评论员一九六六年第十二期

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In Praise of the Red Guards]
By Hongqi commentator

Source: Peking Review, No. 39, September 23, 1966
Transcribed for www.wengewang.org

            The revolutionary people throughout China are now vying each other in praising the Red Guards.
　　　The revolutionary initiative of the Red Guards has shaken the whole world.
　　　The Red Guards are something new that has emerged in the tempest of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; they were born and are growing up in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
　　　The Red Guards have been nurtured in their growth by Mao Tse-tung's thought. The Red Guards say, and say it well: Chairman Mao is our red commander and we are the young, red soldiers of Chairman Mao.
　　　What our Red Guards love most of all is to read Chairman Mao's works and follow his teachings, and their love for Mao Tse-tung's thought is most ardent. They carry with them copies of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung. They take as their highest obligation the study, dissemination, application, and defence of Mao Tse-tung's thought.
　　　In the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution which was personally started and is being personally led by Chairman Mao, the Red Guards have resolutely carried out courageous and stubborn struggles against those in authority who take the capitalist road and against all ghosts and monsters, and they have become the path-makers in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
　　　After the publication of the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," which was drawn up under his personal direction, Chairman Mao, the great leader, and Comrade Lin Piao, his close comrade-in-arms, reviewed the Red Guards in the Chinese capital on August 18. With the direct encouragement of the great supreme commander Chairman Mao, the Red Guards and other revolutionary organizations of the young people set going a new high tide in the Great Cultural Revolution.
          Coming out of their schools and into the streets, the tens of millions of Red Guards formed an irresistible revolutionary torrent. Holding aloft the red banner of the invincible thought of Mao Tse-tung and displaying the proletarian, revolutionary spirit of daring to think, to speak, to act, to break through, and to rise up in revolution, they are cleaning up the muck left over by the old society and sweeping away the rubbish accumulated over thousands of years of history.
　　　The Red Guards have done many good things and put forward many good suggestions. In accordance with Chairman Mao's teachings, they have achieved brilliant results in the struggle to eradicate the old ideas, culture, customs, and habits of the exploiting classes and to foster the new ideas, culture, customs, and habits of the proletariat.
　　　The Red Guards are the shock force of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Their revolutionary actions have roused revolutionary fervour among the masses, bringing about a vigorous mass movement on a still greater scale. Such a sweeping revolutionary mass movement has engulfed in the vast sea of the revolutionary masses the handful of persons in power who have wormed their way into the Party and have taken the capitalist road. Without such a large-scale mass movement, it would be impossible to destroy the social basis on which the handful of bourgeois Rightists rests and to carry through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution thoroughly and in depth.
　　　The Red Guards are a new phenomenon on the eastern horizon. The revolutionary youngsters are the symbol of the future and the hope of the proletariat. Revolutionary dialectics tells us that the newborn forces are invincible, that they inevitably grow and develop in struggle and in the end defeat the decaying forces. Therefore, we shall certainly sing the praises of the new, eulogize it, beat the drums to encourage it, bang the gongs to clear a way for it, and raise our hands high in welcome.
　　　Our Red Guards have performed immortal meritorious deeds in the course of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chairman Mao and the Central Committee of the Party enthusiastically praise their soaring revolutionary spirit, and the broad masses of workers, peasants, and soldiers enthusiastically acclaim their revolutionary actions.
　　　The revolutionary actions of the revolutionary young fighters are indeed excellent! Their meritorious deeds in the Great Cultural Revolution will go down for ever in the revolutionary history of the proletariat.
　　　The Red Guards are learning to swim by swimming, are learning to make a revolution by taking part in it. What they demand of themselves is not only to have the daring to struggle and make revolution, but to be good at struggle, good at revolution. On the basis of the experience they themselves have gained in practice, they are now further studying the 16-point decision of the Party's Central Committee concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, grasping it, and applying it.
　　　Having received the warm praise of Chairman Mao and the broad masses of the workers, peasants, and soldiers, the revolutionary young fighters are now reminding themselves to guard against conceit and rashness and to learn modestly from the People's Liberation Army and the masses of the workers and peasants. They are determined to raise their political consciousness still further and heighten their sense of organization and discipline, in accordance with the "three-eight" working style of the People's Liberation Army and the Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention. They are resolved to temper themselves in the furnace of revolution so as to become revolutionary fighters of the type of Lei Feng, Wang Chieh, Mai Hsien-teh, and Liu Ying-chun, to become Communists who are utterly devoted to others without any thought of self, to become the successors to the revolutionary cause of the proletariat.
　　　Different classes take different views of the revolutionary actions of the Red Guards. The revolutionary classes regard them as extremely good while the counterrevolutionary classes look upon them as extremely bad.
　　　Revolutionary people throughout the world have applauded these revolutionary actions and paid high tribute to the Red Guards. On the other hand, the imperialists, the reactionaries of all countries, the modern revisionists, and the Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang are cursing the Red Guards in the most venomous language. They have vilified the Red Guards as "young fanatics" and attacked their revolutionary actions as "violating human dignity," "destroying social traditions," and so on and so forth.
　　　Chairman Mao has taught us that to be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us in the worst colours and without a single virtue. It is indeed a great honour for the Red Guards that they have been attacked wildly by the class enemies at home and abroad.
　　　"Young fanatics"! Invariably the enemies of revolution are extremely hostile to the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses, and they smear it as "fanatical." And it is precisely what the enemy hates that we love. Not only must the revolutionary young fighters maintain their exuberant revolutionary enthusiasm, they must also further display their soaring revolutionary spirit.
　　　"Violating human dignity"! The Red Guards have ruthlessly castigated, exposed, criticized, and repudiated the decadent, reactionary culture of the bourgeoisie, and they have exposed the ugly features of the bourgeois Rightists to the bright light of day, landing them in the position of rats running across the street and being chased by all. So they shout: "This violates human dignity." To speak frankly, we should not only violate their "dignity" but knock them down so that they can never rise up again.
　　　"Destroying social traditions"? You are right. The Red Guards do want to destroy the traditions of the landlords and the bourgeoisie. The revolutionary young fighters want precisely to make a clean sweep of the remaining viruses of feudalism, eliminate the germs of capitalism, and dig out the evil roots of revisionism. Only by utterly destroying the various old traditions of the exploiting classes is it possible to carry on and develop the revolutionary traditions of the proletariat.
　　　In accordance with the directives of Chairman Mao and the Party's Central Committee, the young Red Guard fighters are concentrating all forces to strike at the handful of bourgeois Rightists, and their main target is those in power within the Party who are taking the capitalist road. In doing so, they are removing the time bombs planted in China by imperialism and revisionism. Therefore, it is quite natural that the imperialists and revisionists should feel shocked, enraged, and bitter about the revolutionary actions of the Red Guards.
　　　That mouthpiece of the reactionary classes Pope Paul the Sixth helplessly blurted out that for them the revolutionary actions of the Red Guards were "a sign of death and not a sign of life." Yes, indeed. The revolutionary actions taken by the revolutionary young fighters are a sure sign of final destruction for the class enemies at home and abroad. And our Red Guards are a symbol that the revolutionary cause of the proletariat is prospering and has unlimited vitality.
　　　Like the red sun rising in the east, the unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is illuminating the land with its brilliant rays.
　　　Long live the Red Guards armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought!
　　　Long live Chairman Mao, our great teacher, great leader, great supreme commander, and great helmsman!
　　　

[“Red Flag” (Hongqi), no. 12,1966]
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《红旗》杂志评论员

现在，全国革命人民争夸红卫兵。

红卫兵的革命首创精神，震动了全世界。

红卫兵是在无产阶级文化大革命的暴风雨中涌现出来的新事物，是在无产阶级文化大革命中诞生和成长起来的。

红卫兵是毛泽东思想哺育出来的。红卫兵们说得好：毛主席是我们的红司令，我们是毛主席的红小兵。

我们的红卫兵最爱读毛主席的书，最爱听毛主席的话，最热爱毛泽东思想。他们随身带着《毛主席语录》，把学习、宣传、执行、捍卫毛泽东思想，作为自己最高的职责。

在毛主席亲自发动和领导的无产阶级文化大革命中，红卫兵坚决同走资本主义道路的当权派，同一切牛鬼蛇神，进行了英勇顽强的斗争，成了无产阶级文化大革命的闯将。

毛主席亲自主持制定的《中国共产党中央委员会关于无产阶级文化大革命的决定》公布之后，八月十八日，伟大领袖毛主席和他的亲密战友林彪同志，在首都检阅了红卫兵。在伟大统帅毛主席的直接鼓舞下，红卫兵和其他青少年革命组织一起，掀起了一个文化大革命的新高潮。

千百万红卫兵由学校走上街头，形成了一股不可抗拒的革命洪流。他们高举战无不胜的毛泽东思想红旗，发扬了敢想、敢说、敢干、敢闯、敢革命的无产阶级革命精神，荡涤着旧社会遗留下来的一切污泥浊水，清扫着几千年来堆积起来的垃圾脏物。

红卫兵干了大量的好事，提出了大量的好倡议。他们按照毛主席的教导，在破除剥削阶级的旧思想、旧文化、旧风俗、旧习惯，树立无产阶级的新思想、新文化、新风俗、新习惯的斗争中，取得了辉煌的战果。

红卫兵是无产阶级文化大革命的急先锋。他们的革命行动，激发了群众的革命热情，出现了更大规模的蓬蓬勃勃的群众运动。这种轰轰烈烈的革命群众运动，使钻进党内的一小撮走资本主义道路的当权派，陷入革命群众的汪洋大海之中。没有这样规模巨大的群众运动，就不能摧毁一小撮资产阶级右派的社会基础，就不能把无产阶级的文化大革命搞深，搞透，搞彻底。

红卫兵是东方地平线上出现的新生事物。革命的青少年是无产阶级的未来和希望的象征。革命的辩证法告诉我们，新生的力量是无敌的，它一定会在斗争中获得壮大和发展，最后战胜腐朽的力量。因此，我们就是要赞美新事物，歌颂新事物，为新生事物的发展，擂鼓助威，鸣锣开道，高举双手，欢迎新事物。
我们的红卫兵，在无产阶级文化大革命中，创建了不朽的功勋。毛主席和党中央热烈地赞扬他们的冲天革命精神，广大工农兵群众热烈欢呼他们的革命行动。
革命小将们的革命行动，真是好得很！他们在文化大革命中的功绩，将永远载入无产阶级的革命史册。

红卫兵们在游泳中学会游泳，在革命中学会革命。他们要求自己，不仅敢于斗争，敢于革命，而且善于斗争，善于革命。他们正在根据自己的实践经验，进一步地学习十六条，掌握十六条，进一步地贯彻执行十六条。

革命小将们受到了毛主席和广大工农兵群众的热烈赞扬之后，他们提出戒骄戒躁，要虚心向人民解放军学习，向工农群众学习。他们下定决心，要按照人民解放军的三八作风、三大纪律和八项注意，来进一步提高自己的政治觉悟，加强组织性和纪律性。他们决心在革命熔炉里，把自己锻炼成雷锋、王杰、麦贤得、刘英俊那样的革命战士，培养成为专门利人毫不利己的共产主义者，成为无产阶级革命事业的接班人。

对待红卫兵的革命行动，不同的阶级有不同的看法，革命的阶级认为好得很，而反革命的阶级则认为糟得很。

全世界的革命人民为红卫兵的革命行动拍手欢呼，向红卫兵致以崇高的敬意。帝国主义，各国反动派，现代修正主义和蒋介石匪帮，则用最恶毒的语言咒骂红卫兵。他们污蔑红卫兵是“少年狂热分子”，攻击红卫兵的革命行动是“违反人类尊严”，是“破坏社会传统”，等等。

毛主席教导我们，被敌人反对是好事而不是坏事。如若敌人起劲地反对我们，把我们说得一塌糊涂，一无是处，那就更好了。红卫兵受到国内外阶级敌人的起劲的反对，这真是光荣得很。

“少年狂热分子”。革命的敌人总是极端仇视群众的革命热情，并诬之为“狂热”。敌人所恨的，正是我们所爱的。革命小将们，不仅要继续保持充沛的革命热情，并且要进一步发扬这种冲天的革命精神。

“违反人类尊严”。红卫兵无情地鞭挞、揭露和批判资产阶级的反动腐朽的文化，把资产阶级右派分子的丑恶嘴脸暴露在光天化日之下，成为人人喊打的过街老鼠。于是他们大叫：“违反人类的尊严”。老实说，我们不仅要违反你们的“尊严”，而且要把你们打倒在地，叫你们永世不得翻身。

“破坏社会传统”吗？你们说对了。红卫兵就是要破坏地主资产阶级的传统。革命的小将们，对于封建主义的余毒，资本主义的病菌，修正主义的祸根，就是要扫清，灭绝，斩断。只有彻底破坏了剥削阶级的种种旧传统，才能够继承和发扬无产阶级的革命传统。

按照毛主席和党中央的指示，红卫兵小将们，集中力量打击一小撮资产阶级右派分子，重点打击党内走资本主义道路的当权派。这样，就挖掉了帝国主义、修正主义埋在我国的定时炸弹。因此，帝国主义、修正主义对红卫兵的革命行动，感到震惊、恼火和愤恨，这是很自然的。

反动阶级的代言人罗马教皇保罗六世无可奈何地供认，红卫兵的革命行动，对他们来说“是死亡的象征，而不是生命的象征”。不错，革命小将们的革命行动，确确实实是国内外阶级敌人的最后灭亡的象征。而我们的红卫兵，则象征着无产阶级革命事业的欣欣向荣，具有无限的生命力。

史无前例的无产阶级文化大革命，犹如东方升起的红太阳，以自己的辉煌光焰普照大地。

用毛泽东思想武装起来的红卫兵万岁！

我们伟大的导师，伟大的领袖，伟大的统帅，伟大的舵手毛主席万岁！

（原载《红旗》杂志一九六六年第十二期）