On the Abolition of Bourgeois Rights
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"On the Abolition of Bourgeois Rights"[1] is a work written by Zhang Chunqiao. It was first published on September 15, 1958, in the sixth issue of the Liberation, a bimonthly magazine published in Shanghai, and later reprinted on October 13, 1958, by the People's Daily. It is considered one of the representative works of Zhang Chunqiao Thought[2] and one of the principal documents of the Continuous Revolution Theory.[3]
The article harshly criticized what it described as the "bourgeois right to protect inequality," arguing that "in reality, it is to replace the proletarian relation of equality with the rites and laws of the bourgeois hierarchical system." It highly praised the "communist supply system, which guaranteed the victory of the Chinese revolution," and advocated "thoroughly abolishing the bourgeois ideology of rights, establishing equal reciprocal relations with the masses, uniting all ranks completely as one, living, working, and laboring together, and striving collectively for socialism and communism."
