"To echo Mao, when man attains the knowledge of this common essence, he uses it as a guide and proceeds to study various concrete things which have not yet been studied, or studied thoroughly, and to discover the particular essence of each; only thus is he able to supplement, enrich and develop his knowledge of their common essence and prevent such knowledge from withering or petrifying. These are the two processes of cognition: one, from the particular to the general, and the other, from the general to the particular. Thus cognition always moves in cycles and (so long as scientific method is strictly adhered to) each cycle advances human knowledge a step higher and so makes it more and more profound. Where our dogmatists err on this question is that, on the one hand, they do not understand that we have to study the particularity of contradiction and know the particular essence of individual things before we can adequately know the universality of contradiction and the common essence of things, and that, on the other hand, they do not understand that after knowing the common essence of things, we must go further and study the concrete things that have not yet been thoroughly studied or have only just emerged. Our dogmatists are lazy-bones. They refuse to undertake any painstaking study of concrete things, they regard general truths as emerging out of the void, they turn them into purely abstract unfathomable formulas, and thereby completely deny and reverse the normal sequence by which man comes to know truth. Nor do they understand the interconnection of the two processes in cognition from the particular to the general and then from the general to the particular. They understand nothing of the Marxist theory of knowledge.
Such is the case with Imperialism and slavery, adherence to utilitarianism has made mere numbers of human beings, Munkchester and its people having enslaved their very selves to strict dogma in the process. The Pan-Asiatic people, and all other liberty-loving peoples in the world, strongly condemn this atrocious tomfoolery. After brief talks with the Directorate, who have worked in conjunction with the State Development and Planning Commission, Asia shall refuse all business and liaison with Munkchester and all members of the anti-slavery alliance until their erroneous policies are reformed or revolted upon."