"Nothing is ‘real’ which does not sustain itself in existence, in a life-and-death struggle with the situations and conditions of its existence. The struggle may be blind or even unconscious, as in inorganic matter; it may be conscious and concerted, such as the struggle of mankind with its own conditions and with those of nature. Reality is the constantly renewed result of the process of existence — the process, conscious or unconscious in which ‘that which is’ becomes ‘other than itself’"

Excerpt from The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

It is now clear that since the movements against the "three evils" and the "five evils" two kinds of mistake which are different in nature have been found in the Party. One kind is of an ordinary nature, for instance, the "five excesses", mistakes which anyone can make and which may crop up at any time; the "five excesses" may also turn into the "five deficiencies".

"to become revolutionary is to become like the sun. the sun whose holy power is both creation and destruction. BECOME LIKE THE SUN. the sun is queer and sacred, and its name is communism."

It is the laboring millions that produce, with their brains, sweat and muscle, all the wealth that society enjoys. Yet we life in a strange civilization in which all those who produce that wealth continually life on the verge of want and poverty, while those who toil not, neither do they spin, revel in elegance and luxury past language to describe. This wealth is extracted from those who produce it by the most heartless methods, the results of which is indelibly stamped on our civilization by a whole calendar of crimes of every conceivable kind.