《译心向党》第十期——《骄傲自满是团结的大敌》

就一般意义讲，对于我们每一个人来说，应该这样认识：骄傲会对自已在革命中的作用和贡献做出不正确的估价。一个人不管负什么责任，在革命事业中只不过是一个螺丝钉。我们所获得的成绩绝不能看作是一个人的，而是多数同志努力的结果，上有中央和上级，下有广大的干部和人民群众，还有同级，还有左邻右舍。我们绝不能贪天之功，将上级的正确领导,其他同志、其他各方面的努力，统统算在自己的身上。

Generally speaking, all of us should understand that a conceited person is prone to exaggerate his role and contribution to the revolution. Everyone, no matter what his responsibility, is serving as no more than a cog in the wheel of the revolutionary cause. Nobody should regard any achievements as his own, instead he should regard them as the result of the efforts made by many comrades —— from the Central Committee and his superiors to the vast numbers of cadres and the people, as well as his colleagues and the comrades of neighbouring departments. We can absolutely not give ourselves credit for achievements scored owing to correct leadership at higher levels and the efforts of other comrades and people in other fields of endeavour.

骄傲的人往往只看到自己工作做得好，不太看得见别的人、别的部门、别的地区的工作也做得好。遇到表扬多一点的时候，就有一点飘飘然。在对待与别的部门、别的地区的关系上，多注意自己方面的困难，忽视对方的困难，不大注意照顾别人，甚至连一点亏也不能吃。在同志之间，看自己的长处多，对自己的短处看不见，或者看得很少，对别人的短处看得很多，长处看不到。对一些非原则问题，一些技术性的问题，也斤斤计较，相持不下，不善于让步，不善于等待。

A conceited person sees only his own achievements and practically shuts his eyes to those of other people, departments and localities. When he is praised a bit more often than others are, he gets carried away. In handling relations with other departments and localities, he sees only the difficulties of his own department, ignoring the difficulties of others, seldom takes the interests of others into consideration and is never willing to get anything less than others. He only sees his own strong points, not the strong points of other comrades, and sees only others’ weak points, few or none of his own. He engages in endless arguments with others on issues that are not matters of principle but of a purely technical nature, categorically refusing to compromise or be patient with others.

毛泽东同志所规定的多年来行之有效的我们党赖以取得胜利的那些党的原则，例如对错误和缺点采取严肃的态度,开展批评与自我批评的原则；从团结的愿望出发,经过批评和斗争,达到团结目的的原则；与人为善的态度和治病教人的原则；照顾别的人、别的部门、别的地区，照顾少数的原则等等，在革命胜利以后，却很少讲了，而与这些原则相违背的一些现象反而在滋长着。

For instance, on the one hand, people seldom stress the Party principles formulated by Comrade Mao Zedong that have proved effective over the years and enabled our Party to attain victory. These principles are: taking a serious attitude towards mistakes and shortcomings and making criticism and self-criticism; proceeding from the desire for unity and achieving unity through criticism and struggle; helping others and “curing the sickness to save the patient”; and giving consideration to other people, departments, localities and the minority. On the other hand, violations of these principles are increasing.