Opposition parties are meaningless; they all serve capital. Essentially, the Republican and Democratic parties are the same, and the same applies if a new party emerges.

“This is the origin of this absurd anddishonest attack.”

“These defenders of private property further assume that a ‘wife’ is property attached to the ‘husband’ within a private-property-based marriage system.”

“From there, the logic becomes: ‘You must share your property; your wife is your property; therefore, you must share your wife.’”

“At its core, it stems from anti-communists crudely reducing communism to the idea that ‘abolishing private property means you must share all your possessions with everyone.’”

Investigation is like “ten months of pregnancy”; solving the problem is like “deliverance in a single day.” Investigation is solving the problem.
— Mao Zedong, “Against Dogmatism”

Is it always necessary to go out? Not necessarily; you can convene those who understand the situation and hold an investigative meeting to locate the “source” of the problem and clarify the “present condition,” and then your difficulty will become easy to solve.

No matter how limited your ability, you can solve problems, because before you go out your mind is empty, and when you return it is not empty — you will have brought back the necessary material to solve the problem.

They grow angry and request reassignment, saying, “I lack ability; I cannot carry this out.” That is the talk of cowards. Set your feet in motion; go to every part and place of your work area and practice Confucius’s “ask about everything.”

This purely subjective “talking blindly” is truly the most detestable thing. Such people will surely ruin matters, lose the masses, and fail to solve problems.
Many leaders, when faced with difficult problems, merely sigh and cannot solve them.

Many inspectors, many guerrilla leaders, and many newly appointed cadres like to arrive and immediately announce their policies; seeing a superficial detail or a single branch, they point fingers and declare this wrong and that mistaken.

Only a fool — whether alone or gathered with others — fails to investigate and instead sits and ruminates, “thinking up methods” or “brainstorming ideas.” Know that this cannot produce good methods or good ideas; in other words, it will certainly produce wrong methods and wrong ideas.

Many comrades go about day after day with their eyes shut, talking blindly — this is a disgrace for Communists. Can a Communist keep his eyes shut and spout nonsense? Unacceptable! Unacceptable! Emphasize investigation!
— Mao Zedong, “Against Dogmatism”

If you have not investigated the present and historical facts of an issue and do not know its true situation, then your remarks will certainly be mere blind talk. Everyone knows that blind talk cannot solve problems, so what injustice is there in stopping you from speaking?