23 Launching Criticism of Bourgeois. Academic Thought in the Linguistics Field

In continuously perfecting the socialist revolution on the economic, political, and ideological fronts simultaneously, the step-by-step realization of the technological and cultural revolutions is the primary focal point of the general line of socialist construction in our country. Launching criticism of bourgeois academic thought is a link in the technological and cultural revolutions that cannot be ignored; it is only by thoroughly criticizing the academic thought of the specialists and scholars that the proletariat at large and the young intellectuals can rid themselves of their superstitions, completely liberate their creative energies, and develop the lofty communist traits of thinking, speaking, and disagreeing fearlessly. This kind of criticism of the bourgeois intellectuals will be a more thorough revolution of the self than criticisms of ideology on several occasions in the past have been.