历史教师不能因为有了教材,就可以忽视自觉地掌握和运用阶级分析的方法。在这次李秀成问题讨论中,自己曾几次翻阅了《李秀成自述》,认识到这篇《自述》无可辩驳地是一篇叛徒的自白。但是,这样明显的事实,有的历史工作者却偏偏视而不见,单凭自己的主观臆断,说什么这是用的“假投降”或者是“苦肉缓兵计”。说奇怪其实也并不奇怪,这正是说明我们的历史研究,要站在哪个阶级立场上,用什么观点、方法来研究分析历史现象的问题。周扬同志在《哲学社会 History teachers can not ignore the method of class analysis because they have the teaching materials. In his discussion of Li Xiu-cheng, he himself read “Li Xiucheng’s Self-Report” several times, recognizing that this “self-report” is irrefutable one of the traitor confessions. However, on the obvious fact that some historical workers have turned a blind eye to their own subjective assumptions, they have said that they used “false surrender” or “hard-nosed retrenchment”. Strange to say it is not surprising that this is precisely the question of what historical standpoint we should study and what position and method should be used to study and analyze the historical phenomenon. Comrade Zhou Yang is in "Philosophy Society