But in dealing with current conditions, with history, and with things foreign, they lacked the critical spirit of his-torical materialism and regarded what was bad as absolutely and wholly bad and what was good as absolutely and wholly good.

• 但是他们对于现状，对于历史，对于外国事物，没有历史唯物主义的批判精神，所谓坏就是绝对的坏，一切皆坏；所谓好就是绝对的好，一切皆好。