Mao Zedong Uses the Idiom "If the Skin Is Gone, What Can the Hair Attach To" to Argue About Intellectuals

During the Anti-Rightist Campaign, Mao Zedong quoted the Zuo Zhuan idiom "If the skin is gone, what can the hair attach to," comparing intellectuals to hair clinging to the skin of the proletariat, and declared that intellectuals had lost the qualifications for independent survival.

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