实事求是、群众路线、独立自主是毛泽东思想活的灵魂,其本身又是完备的理论形态。这一理论形态,是由毛泽东创立并发展的。它是毛泽东思想的重要组成部分,丰富和发展了马克思列宁主义。同毛泽东思想其他组成部分一样,它在党的十一届三中全会以来有了新的发展。毛泽东在他的晚年特别是在“文化大革命”中,日益背离了他自己倡导的实事求是、群众路线、独立自主的思想原则。林彪、江青反革命集团对这三条原则肆意歪曲和践踏,大搞唯心主义和形而上学,把人们的思想长期束缚在个人崇拜和教条主义的禁锢圈里。粉碎江青反革命集团,特别是党的十一届三中全会以来,党中央在指导思想上拨乱反正,重 Seeking truth from facts, the mass line and independence are the living souls of Mao Zedong Thought and are themselves complete theoretical forms. This theoretical form was founded and developed by Mao Zedong. It is an important part of Mao Zedong Thought and enriches and develops Marxism-Leninism. Like other components of Mao Tse-tung's thought, it has undergone a new development since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee. In his later years, especially during the “Cultural Revolution,” Mao Zedong increasingly deviated from his own own ideological principles of seeking truth from facts, the mass line and independence. Lin Biao and Jiang Qing have carried out wanton distortion and trampling on these three principles, made major efforts in idealism and metaphysics, and kept their thinking long-term in the circle of personal worship and dogmatism. Since smashing the Jiang Qing counterrevolutionary clique, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, the Central Party Committee has all along rectified its guiding ideology,