January 27, 1959
Conversation from [Mao Zedong's] Audience with a Government Delegation from the German Democratic Republic (Excerpt)
接见德意志民主共和国政府代表团的谈话（摘录）
（一九五九年一月二十七日）
……在中国人民中肃清资产阶级思想是长期的事情。这些知识分子。我们不能不用他们，没有他们，我们不能进行工作，没有他们就没有工程师，教授、教员、记者，医生，文学家，艺术家。又用他们，又同他们作斗争。所以是很复杂的工作。不能只用他们而忽视斗争性的一面，不然过了一个时期。他们又会出来反对党。匈牙利事件对我们是一个很大的教训。在中国搞了几千个小匈牙利。北京有三十四个高等学校，我们让他们造反。有一个时期他们占上风。闹得天昏地暗，好像共产党就要灭亡了。这时候。我们准备反攻。经过几个月的辩论，驳倒了他们的谬论，多数人争取了过来，站在我们这一边。当然你们那边不能这样做，因为你们离敌人太近了。在我们这里。在每一个大学、中学、工厂、政府机关，右派想怎么做就让他怎么做，让他们尽量讲，我们一个月没有说话。并且给他们登报。这就给他们照了像，再也收不同去了。然后，我们就组织队伍，进行反攻，抓住了他们的尾巴。我们有充分的理由。不搞这一手，对社会主义是很危险的。右派的政治资本没有了，可是中间派当中还可能有人反对我们，世界上有混乱的时候，他们又会再来。我们要有准备。
Mao discusses the need to both use and control intellectuals. He particularly notes that the CCP must be prepared to face rebellions at universities [such as the ones that occurred during the Hundred Flowers Campaign]. When Mao allowed Chinese intellectuals to rebel, it almost seemed like the CCP would perish, but he learned from the Hungarian Incident [a student protest incited the Hungarian Revolution of 1956] and ensnared them [in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957].
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