Internal Errors in the Mass Line Method

Many commentators seize upon only a single aspect of the mass line and fail to recognize its other aspects. The bourgeois populist conception can be characterized by the slogan, whatever the masses already understand and want to do is right. This idealizes the masses. For these ritists, the choice is not made on the basis of marxs theory. It has to be made on some other basis,. which often means choosing whichever view the majority of the masses support.