“放下包袱和开动机器”,是毛泽东同志在《学习和时局》这篇讲话中向全党、特别是党的干部提出来的,其基本精神就是要求党的干部清除思想精神上的负担,发挥革命的主观能动性。用今天的话来说,就是进一步解放思想。当时正值抗日战争胜利前夕,全国形势正在发生急剧变化,人民事业有 “Putting down the burden and starting the machine” was put forward by Comrade Mao Tse-tung to all the party members, especially the party cadres, in his speech “Learning and the Current Situations.” The basic spirit of this is to require the party cadres to clear their mental and spiritual burdens, Give play to the revolutionary initiative. In today’s words, it is to further emancipate the mind. At that time just before the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the situation in the country was undergoing dramatic changes and the people’s cause