“Practice Is the Sole Criterion for Judging Truth,” with the protective byline “specially invited commentators.” On May 12, People's Daily and the PLA newspaper Jiefangjun bao reprinted it, and it was quickly picked up and reprinted in many regional papers as well. The article argued that the only way to evaluate truth was by the broad social experience of the people. Marxism is not an unchanging body of thinking; instead Marxism must continually be reinterpreted as a result of experience. The basic principle of Marxism encompasses the combination of theory and practice. Under certain
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