Philosophy is No Mystery

This small book about the experiences of members of a production brigade in a people’s commune in China during the years of the Proletarian Cultural Revolution vividly shows how simple peasants studied philosophy and learned to apply it in their struggle to transform their country and their lives. Not only the workers and peasants were encouraged to study philosophy but in the course of the study movement launched by the party, thousands of workers, peasants and soldiers themselves wrote philosophical articles. They applied the Marxist theory of knowledge and the methodology of Marxism learnt through their study and they dealt…