Originally published by the revolutionaries in Shanghai during the height of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as a manual for revolutionary youth who were going down to the country side. This book represents some of the most revolutionary thinking to take place during China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It serves to demarcate between revolutionaries and revisionists, explains the principles of criticism/self-criticism, and generally Teaches cadres to be a better revolutionaries. This book is useful to anyone wanting to learn how to be a principled revolutionary cadre.