If anyone asks why a Communist should strive to bring into being first a bourgeois-democratic society and then a socialist society, our answer is: we are following the inevitable course of history.

• 若问一个共产主义者为什么要首先为了实现资产阶级民主主义的社会制度而斗争，然后再去实现社会主义的社会制度，那答复是：走历史必由之路。