Ye Jianying Quote

Marxism recognizes that leadership persons play an important and indispensable role in historical development; at the same time it believes that leaders who play the role of promoting progress must be representatives of the interests of the masses as well as the executors of the wishes of the masses.

Talk at the Assembly Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC, 30 September 1979

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