Now let's go back to the question raised at the beginning of the article: What is the "practical significance" of Harry's dismissal from office in the posters? In our socialist era, what role does it play for the people of China? To answer this question, we must study the background of the work. As we all know, 196 1 year is the third consecutive year when China encountered temporary economic difficulties due to natural disasters. Under the circumstance that imperialism, reactionaries of various countries and modern revisionism have repeatedly set off anti-China climax, ghosts and ghosts have blown up a "wind of going it alone" and a "wind of reversing the case". They advocate the superiority of "going it alone" and demand the restoration of individual economy. "Returning farmland" is to overthrow the platform of people's commune and restore the evil rule of landlords and rich peasants. The imperialists who created countless unjust prisons for the working people and the rich in the old society turned against the Rightists. They lost the right to build unjust prisons. They felt that being overthrown was "unjust" and clamored for "rehabilitation of unjust imprisonment". They hope that people who represent their interests will come out against the dictatorship of the proletariat, feel aggrieved for them, "reverse their case" for them, and let them return to power. "Withdrawing farmland" and "rehabilitating unjust imprisonment" were the focus of the bourgeois struggle against the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist revolution at that time. Class struggle exists objectively, and it must be reflected in the ideological field in one form or another, in the works of this writer or that writer, regardless of whether the writer is conscious or unconscious. This is an objective law that is independent of human will. Harry's dismissal is a reflection of this class struggle. If Comrade Wu Han disagrees with this analysis, please ask him to give a clear answer: 196 1 year, what can people "learn" from Harry's Dismissed from Office, which distorts the historical truth?

We believe that "Hai Rui dismissed from office" is not fragrant flowers, but poisonous weeds. Although it was only published and performed in the first few years, there are countless articles praising it, and similar works and articles are widely circulated, with great influence and wide harm. If it is not clarified, it will do great harm to the people's cause and needs to be discussed. In this discussion, as long as we think seriously from the viewpoint of class analysis, we will certainly get a profound lesson from the realistic and historical class struggle.

1965165438+1October 10, Shanghai Culture News published Yao's article "Comment on the newly edited historical drama" Hai Rui dismissed from office ",which started the Cultural Revolution. Wu Han's "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office" was written after Mao Zedong advocated learning from Hai Rui in April 1959, and was completed at the end of 1960. Since 1962, there have been differences in understanding the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward and the measures to correct them and overcome difficulties. In this case, Jiang Qing repeatedly proposed to Mao Zedong that "Hai Rui dismissed from office" was problematic and should be criticized. Mao Zedong didn't agree at first, but later he was persuaded. From 1965, Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao planned together, to the publication of Wen Yao, the whole writing process was carried out in a secret state that no one except Mao Zedong knew in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Yao criticized the article "Catch the Wind and Catch the Shadow" by name, linking the "returning farmland" and "rehabilitating wrongs" in "Hai Rui Dismissed from Office" with the so-called "going it alone" and "reversing wrongs", insisting that "returning farmland" and "rehabilitating wrongs" were the key points of the bourgeoisie's struggle against the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist revolution at that time "and approved the publication of this article, and instructed the national newspapers to reprint it. The publication of this article and the subsequent mass criticism movement became the fuse for launching the "Cultural Revolution".