Chapter 59 Organize democrats to visit or participate in land reform and counter-revolutionary work

(March 18 and 30, 1951) one Comrades Soseki, Zihui, Xiaoping, and Zhongxun [1]: If democrats and university professors are willing to watch the land reform, they should let them watch it without prearrangement, let them watch it at will, not just let them look at the good ones, but also let them watch some bad ones, so as to educate them.Wu Jingchao, Zhu Guangqian[2] and others went to see the land reform near Xi'an, and the influence was very good.We must educate our cadres about such cases and break the closed-door thinking. Mao Zedong March 18 two The Central Bureaus of East China, Central South, Southwest, Northwest, and North China, and sub-bureaus, provincial party committees, district party committees, large and medium city party committees, and prefectural committees:

In addition to the work of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, which must be done together with all democratic parties and democrats, the two tasks of land reform and suppression of counter-revolutionaries must also involve all democratic parties and democrats. The more the better, the better.Please plan to organize the democratic parties, democrats, professors, teachers, and capitalists to visit the countryside in dozens of batches from major cities and medium-sized cities in the summer, autumn, and winter of this year. Work.As long as they are willing to go, they are welcome to go.Don't be afraid of them, don't be wary of them, because they are not reactionaries.Let them see the good and the bad, let them discuss and express their opinions freely, there are only advantages and no disadvantages.As for the anti-revolutionary work in the city, it is even more necessary to allow them to participate. The people of the whole city must discuss the anti-revolutionary work, and everyone pays attention to dealing with counter-revolutionaries.The following is the report of the Western Sichuan District Party Committee, please take a look.

Mao Zedong March 30 Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Shushi, that is, Rao Shushi, was the first secretary of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Zihui, that is, Deng Zihui, was the third secretary of the Central South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at that time.Xiaoping, also known as Deng Xiaoping, was the first secretary of the Southwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Zhongxun, that is, Xi Zhongxun, was the first secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.

[2] Wu Jingchao (1901-1968), born in Shexian County, Anhui Province, was a professor in the Department of Sociology of Tsinghua University at that time.Zhu Guangqian (1897-1986), born in Tongcheng, Anhui, was a professor at the Department of Western Language and Literature of Peking University at that time.