Chapter 88 <The doctrine of foreigners is traitorous>

Comrade Wang Ruofei, an older generation of proletarian revolutionaries in our party, did not waver in his firm belief in Marxism-Leninism even though he was in the enemy's prison, and waged a tit-for-tat struggle with the Kuomintang reactionaries.In one trial, the judge accused him of treason on the grounds that: Marx and Lenin were both foreigners. Isn’t it traitorous for a Chinese to talk about the doctrine of foreigners? The judge was at his wit's end, and he could not find any evidence of Wang Ruofei's treachery, so he had to resort to clumsy sophistry.He argued like this: You (referring to Wang Ruofei) are traitors because you speak of foreign doctrines.This is the application of an elliptical syllogism. The premise of ellipsis is that anyone who talks about alienism is a traitor.Using this absurd major premise as an argument violates the rule of argument that the argument must be true.Made the mistake of false arguments.

In response to this fallacy, Comrade Wang Ruofei gave a powerful exposure and refutation.He said: Mr. Judge, you are simply too ridiculous, too ridiculous.It is amazing how pitifully ignorant you are.To speak to you, I must speak of common sense: Marx was a Jew in Germany, he could not gain a foothold in Germany, and he carried out revolutionary activities in Paris.Later he lived in London, England.He participated in the labor movement in Britain, and the British working class welcomed him very much.According to you, did the British workers betray their country to Marx?According to the truth of Marxism, Lenin established the Bolshevik Party in Russia, led the people to overthrow the reactionary tsarist rule, and drove away the German invaders.Did Lenin drive out the Germans and sell Russia to the Germans?Gentlemen, Marxism-Leninism is the truth of the proletarian revolution. It can be developed in any country where it is needed, and no one can stop it!If you don't understand, don't pretend to understand, pretend to be knowledgeable.Such self-righteousness and self-deception is of no benefit except to add to the jokes. ("Wang Ruofei in Prison", China Youth Publishing House, 1961 edition, page 35)

In order to justify their perverse and ugly acts, all the reactionaries in China and abroad often deliberately fabricate false arguments.Please see the following example: (1) At about ten o'clock in the night on September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army garrison entrenched in the northeast of my country blew up a section of the railway in Liutiaogou in the north of Shenyang by itself, creating the so-called Liutiaogou incident, and then counter-frauded The Chinese army blew up the South-Manchuria Railway and attacked the Japanese garrison, and used this as an excuse to launch a large-scale armed aggression into Northeast my country.

(2) On the night of February 27, 1933, the Reichstag in Berlin suddenly caught fire.As soon as the arson incident happened, the Hitler authorities insisted that the Communist Party did it, which was a signal for the Communist Party to launch an armed uprising.Then Hitler's government announced the banning of the Communist Party and the democratic press, and arrested Communists and progressives, including Dimitrov, the leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Berlin. (3) During the Cultural Revolution, Lin Biao and the Gang of Four fabricated all kinds of appalling false materials out of thin air, imposed them on veteran cadres and intellectuals, and created a large number of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

The above cases are all typical examples of false arguments.This despicable method of calling out to catch a thief, framing others, and blaming others is the worst sophistry.