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title: '"连队理论小组" (Company theory study group), Shanghai poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/company-theory-study-group-poster-china-1975/
description: Nine soldiers in green uniforms crowd round a table of papers, books and a newspaper (the museum identifies it as People's Daily), one holding a small…
section: Collection
---

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# "连队理论小组" (Company theory study group), Shanghai poster

Nine soldiers in green uniforms crowd round a table of papers, books and a newspaper (the museum identifies it as People's Daily), one holding a small red book, with a rifle leaning at left. A blackboard reads 'Third: an outline of the Confucian-Legalist struggle in history' and a banner urges them to read seriously and master Marxism. Study is staged as the army's normal, eager routine, with the army's prestige and an abstract call to master Marxism standing for the argument (transfer, glittering generalities).

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese (simplified characters)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
认真看书学习，弄通马克思主义。

第三、历史上儒法斗争的概况

连队理论小组
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Read books seriously and study, thoroughly grasp Marxism.

Third: an outline of the Confucian-Legalist struggle in history.

Company theory study group.
```

Banner (upper left), blackboard (centre right) and title (bottom left). The first characters of the banner's second line and the blackboard's 'Third' are low resolution. A pencilled note and colophon at the lower right are omitted.

[← Nixon with the edited White House tape transcripts](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nixon-edited-transcripts-1974/) ["为革命实行计划生育" (Practise family planning for the revolution), Shanghai poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/family-planning-for-the-revolution-china-1975/)

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