The full text of the prison self-report is about 2700 words. Under difficult conditions, he wrote three drafts. The first draft was relatively short, and the third draft only made some textual changes compared with the second draft. The spirit of the three manuscripts is exactly the same. Now let's focus on the third draft, which is the last draft, and see how he wrote it. We can see from the "Self-report" that under the torture of the enemy, Li Dazhao was fearless, adhered to the revolutionary principles, mastered the struggle strategy, was imprisoned, still devoted himself to national liberation, "reconstruction" and "rejuvenation of China", and kept the secrets of our party strictly, and continued to elaborate the revolutionary ideas publicized at that time to cover up the fact that he was arrested together.
First of all, Li Dazhao reviewed his heroic revolutionary life, expressed his firm belief and lofty ambition, and publicized his revolutionary thought of anti-imperialist transformation of China. This aspect of the content, in the "readme" accounted for a lot of space. Among them, I have repeatedly stated that I think it is urgent to rebuild China. To rebuild China, we must resolutely oppose imperialist oppression, the "root cause of today's turmoil in China", and abolish the "unequal treaties that bind the vitality of our nation"; It is necessary to "unite with foreign countries to treat their own ethnic groups and oppressed weak ethnic groups equally, expand and arouse the majority of our people, and unite under a political program to save the country" in order to "achieve the goal of establishing a country that restores ethnic autonomy, protects people's interests and develops industries in developed countries."
Secondly, the rest of the prison self-report talked about Sun Yat-sen's "joining the Kuomintang in person" and also talked about some situations of the Kuomintang in Beijing, Guangzhou and Wuhan. The Gang of Four and their advisers tried to catch Li Dazhao's "handle" from here, but failed.
Li Dazhao was not arrested alone at that time, and more than 60 revolutionary comrades were arrested with him; At the same time, the revolutionary leading organs were cracked and many documents fell into the hands of the enemy. In this case, a revolutionary leader should consider not only fighting the enemy, but protecting other arrested comrades, revolutionary organizations and revolutionary masses as much as possible. This part of the prison self-report has played this role.
It is clear what he wrote at that time. These situations can be divided into three categories.
One is to confuse the enemy and protect the revolutionary forces. For example, the Kuomintang "has no important job in the north" and "Beijing is an academic center, not an industrial center", so "there is no trade union organization". It is rumored that party member's actions in Beijing are all rumors.
One is to refute the enemy's slander on the revolution and the Soviet Union under Stalin at that time. At that time, the enemy labeled the case of Li Dazhao and others as a "Soviet conspiracy" and the * * * production party as a "tool of red Russia", and took this opportunity to engage in the so-called "fighting and driving red". Li Dazhao firmly stated that their residence is the "boxer indemnity Committee" headed by the Kuomintang Xu Qian and others, not the Soviet Embassy; Everything was "not discussed with any Russians", and the money was remitted by the Kuomintang from Guangzhou and Wuhan. Obviously, the purpose of explaining these situations is by no means to "please" the enemy, but only to protect the revolution.
There is another kind, that is, after careful selection, Li Dazhao also talked about some well-known Kuomintang situations. For example, we talked about the names of some key figures of the Kuomintang-Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Wu Zhihui, Li Shiceng, Yu Youren, Xu Qian and Gu, and talked about the first and second national congresses of the Kuomintang in Wuhan and the Kuomintang Central Committee. All these things have been reported in the newspapers. Li Dazhao wrote this only to cover the revolutionary comrades who were arrested with him.
Sun Yat-sen once formed a military alliance with Zhang against Wu, and Wang Jingwei was in charge of liaison for a long time. At that time, warlord Feng was also adopting the counter-revolutionary strategy of pulling the Kuomintang and fighting the * * * production party, and announced that the arrested national party member "can be released according to law in the future". At that time, the Kuomintang was in a semi-split position in the north. Li Dazhao is well aware of these situations. He never talked about the * * * production party, but talked about the Kuomintang, precisely to take advantage of the warlord's policy at that time, "attack the shield with a spear of a child" and preserve the revolutionary forces as much as possible. This is not only beyond reproach, but also a combination of principle and flexibility. Correct use of revolutionary strategies against counter-revolutionary strategies!
Third, the three articles did not mention the * * * production party, nor did they admit that they were made in party member, let alone any disclosure of party secrets. At this point, even the enemies at that time had to admit to the press: "Li has no definite confession."
Finally, the prison self-report plausibly said: "When Zhao received the book, he was determined to work hard for the cause of national liberation, practice what he believed, encourage what he knew, and make countless contributions to his crimes. Now that I've been arrested, I have to confess. If you are convicted again because of this, you will take full responsibility. " He also proposed to the Fengxi authorities that the "patriotic youth" arrested together should be "not implicated", which fully expressed the lofty revolutionary integrity of this great proletarian fighter and outstanding leader of the party and the broad mind of the proletariat!
The Gang of Four and its advisers attacked and slandered Li Dazhao's glorious legacy. What they used to deceive people was a deliberately manufactured and implemented ultra-left line. According to this ultra-left logic, it seems that in front of the enemy, we can only shout out the slogan of the most "revolution", and, like Li Dazhao, adopting correct strategies and flexible methods of struggle will be accused of "traitors" and "surrender" even if we really defend the interests of the party and the revolution and protect the revolutionary forces. Not to mention they made it up without foundation. Because of this, they create "traitors" everywhere, and there are unjust prisons everywhere in the country. We will never forget this painful lesson. To evaluate a comrade's behavior in the enemy's court, prison and execution ground, we must adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts and analyzing specific situations, because these comrades are fighting under very difficult, complicated and dangerous conditions.