Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

Comment On The Article — ‘How
To Play Table Tennis’ By
Comrade Hsu Yin-sheng

January 1965


Comrade Hsu Yin-sheng’s talk and Comrade Ho Lung’s comment should be printed and circulated among the comrades in the Centre, who, I hope, will have more of this kind of thing printed and distributed when they go back to their regions. Comrades, this is young ‘generals’ ’ challenge to us, the old ones! Should we refuse to learn anything from them? The talk is full of dialectical materialism and is throughout opposed to idealism and metaphysics. [I] have not read anything so good for years. What he [Hsu] talks about is a ball game; what we can learn from it are theory, politics, economy, culture, and military affairs. If we do not learn from the young ‘generals’, we shall be doomed.



Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung