The Communist Party’s official verdict, undoubtedly the product of fierce ideological disputes, is that he was a great Marxist and revolutionary, whose “gross mistakes” during the Cultural Revolution were outweighed by his contribution to China. “His merits,” it argues, “are primary and his errors secondary.”
而中国共产党的官方定论，则无可争议的是激烈的思想政治斗争的产物，即：毛泽东是一位伟大的马克思主义者和革命家，而他在文化大革命期间犯下的“重大错误”则不及他对中国所作出的贡献。定论坚持主张，“他的功绩是第一位的，错误是第二位的。”