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victorious in the fight against the enemy. Needless to say, it is important in bringing out to the full the superiority of the socialist system to lay firm material and technical foundations for socialism and improve the method of managing the socialist economy. But it is more important to strengthen the subject of the revolution. It is people that develop the economy and technology and it is also people that manage the socialist system. Therefore, the superiority of the socialist system cannot be displayed unless the subject of the revolu- tion is strengthened. Strengthening the subject of the revolution is also essential in preventing the ideological and cultural infiltration of imperialism. The great leader has said that a man with a well- trained body will not fall ill even if he is attacked by disease. However violent the imperialists' desperate manoeuvres may be, revisionism and reformism cannot raise their heads when the subject of the revolution is strong. We must always seek the key to victory in the revolution and construction in the subject, not in the objective con- ditions, and seek the basic method and means of promoting the revolution and construction in strengthening the subject and enhancing its role. The strengthening of the subject of the revolution must begin with the consolidation of the party, the core and leading force of the subject. When the party is sound ideologically, the masses can be sound in their ideology; when the party suffers from ideo- logical malady, the masses also suffer from ideological sickness. It is only when the party is united that the masses can be united; when it is divided, the masses will be divided. Therefore, primary attention must be paid to maintaining the purity of the party's revolutionary idea, improving steadily its 22