Talk:Seek truth from facts

Not Mao?
I was sure that Mao first said this. Am I wrong? Homunculus (duihua) 02:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes.
 * David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 06:02, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Unclear block quote
The block-quotation box from Hu Fuming’s “Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth” begins without quotation marks, much as one would expect in a block quote.

It then introduces double quotation marks to identify a brief excerpt from Mao: “There is only one truth, and whoever discovers the truth does not rely on subjective exaggeration, but on objective practice”. All good so far.

The next line reads as follows (ie no quotation marks): Only the revolutionary practice of millions of people is the yardstick for testing the truth.

This, I think, is actually part of the quote from Mao (in On New Democracy).

Then we get another open quotation, which is never finished, plus a few single words inside quotation marks.

Is there anybody sufficiently familiar with the source materials to clarify the presentation of this quoted passage? For all that it is lengthy, technical, and somewhat dry, it’s from an enormously significant publication, and the sentiment expressed marks a striking departure from the didactic “mass line” edicts of the Cultural Revolution years. Foxmilder (talk) 15:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)