Excerpt From a Poem Written for Jiang Qing

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of Excerpt From a Poem Written for Jiang Qing has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following edition: Quotations in Mao's Last Will and Testament?, in The Guardian (29th of October, 1976).

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

This is an excerpt from a poem written by Comrade Mao Zedong for Comrade Jiang Qing in Beijing, China in August 1976. It was first published in The Guardian (29th of October, 1976).

The melody of the poem is unknown.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#EXCERPT FROM A POEM WRITTEN FOR JIANG QING

#Mao Zedong

#August 1976

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You have been wronged,

Today, we are separating into two worlds,

May each keep their peace,

These few words may be my last message to you.

Why was the Nationalist Party defeated?

Because it believed the foreigners,

The Bald Eagle is brutal,

And so is the Polar Bear.

A human life is limited,

But the revolution knows no bounds,

In the struggle of the past ten years, I have tried in vain to reach the peak of the revolution,

However, you could reach the summit.

If somehow you fail,

You will plunge into a fathomless abyss,

Your body will be torn apart,

And your bones will break.

It is good not to compromise with the others,

If the blade turns, and I believe that it has, against the revolution,

Then it will be necessary to wage guerrilla war once again,

Once again, Yan'an.