Oppose Book Worship by Mao Zedong

A polemic against blind reliance on texts and abstract doctrine, arguing that study divorced from investigation and practice produces sterile, ineffective thinking; it urges critics and cadres to test theories in concrete conditions, critically adapt general principles to local realities rather than mechanically copying foreign models, and to learn through direct experience so ideas remain flexible, useful, and anchored in the lived struggle for social and political change.