Chapter 79 The notion that the semi-working class is also the leading class must be corrected[1]

(December 15 and 23, 1951) one Comrade Shaoqi: How is the tour? I have arrived in Hangzhou. According to An Ziwen, Hu Qiaomu[2] and other comrades, there are still many people who disagree with the semi-working class as the leading class, as in the letter from Hebei Party School Yin Yigang and others. There are reasons for such a proposal, and it is now necessary to correct the formulation in the draft resolution on party consolidation.This matter is now in a passive state, and only a correction can restore the initiative.Here is a telegram [3], an Ziwen report [4], and a letter from Hebei Party School Yin Yigang, etc., and send them to you for review and ask for your opinion. .

Everything is fine here, don't read. Best wishes Angie! Mao Zedong December 15 two Comrades Zhou, Zhu, Chen, An Ziwen, Hu Qiaomu, Yang Shangkun[5]: I have sent a letter to seek Comrade Liu Shaoqi's opinion on this issue, and now I have to reply, please read it.I also made some amendments to the telegram [6], and felt that it was advisable to print and distribute the letters of Comrades Yin and Luo Er and An Ziwen together with the telegram of the Central Committee to clarify this issue and enable the Central Committee to obtain initiative.If you agree, please Shang Kun to do it.

Mao Zedong December 23 Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] During the period of the new democratic revolution and the socialist revolution, the working class was the leading class of the Chinese revolution, which has always been clearly stated in the documents of the Communist Party of China.The semi-working class is also a reference to the leading class, which only appeared in individual documents before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China.In February 1948, Mao Zedong used this formulation when revising the draft of the "Regulations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Division and Treatment of Social Classes in Land Reform", saying that "the proletariat and semi-proletariat (poor peasants) are The leading class of the people's democratic revolution and the new democratic state regime, and the proletariat is the main leading class".In March and April 1951, the First National Organization Work Conference held by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China drafted the "Resolution on Rectifying the Party's Basic Organizations" based on Liu Shaoqi's report. Class and rural semi-working class leaders will need the leadership of the working class even more in the future”; in July of the same year, this sentence was changed to “The Chinese revolution is in the In the past it was led by the working and semi-working classes of cities and villages".On October 27 of the same year, a letter from Yin Yigang and Luo Yunlu from the Party School of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China raised different opinions on the notion that the semi-working class is also the leading class.Mao Zedong approved the letter to An Ziwen, asking him to give advice on how to deal with it.An Ziwen suggested that the reference to the semi-working class as the leading class should be revised.Mao Zedong agreed to correct this formulation and wrote a letter to seek Liu Shaoqi's opinion.Liu Shaoqi quickly replied and agreed.In December of the same year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China officially issued the "Revised Instructions on the Issue of the Leading Class of the Chinese Revolution", stating: "The issue of the leadership of the Chinese revolution, no matter in the past or in the future, should only refer to the working class (through its vanguard, the Communist Party of China). leadership should no longer include the semi-working class.”

[2] An Ziwen (1909-1980), a native of Shuanghuyu Town (now Zizhou), Suide, Shaanxi, was the deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee at that time.Hu Qiaomu was the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong's secretary. [3] Refers to the draft of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's "Revised Instructions on the Issue of the Chinese Revolutionary Leading Class" drafted at that time. [4] Refers to An Ziwen's report to Mao Zedong on November 28, 1951, that the formulation that the semi-working class is also the leading class should be amended.

[5] Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai.Zhu, refers to Zhu De.Chen, referring to Chen Yun, who was then Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Vice Premier of the State Council.Yang Shangkun (1907-1998), a native of Tongnan, Sichuan (now part of Chongqing), was the director of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time. [6] Mao Zedong’s revision of the draft of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s “Revised Instructions Concerning the Question of the Leading Class of the Chinese Revolution” is mainly: in the draft of the instructions, when mentioning the leading class of the Chinese revolution in the party’s documents in the past, he once said half The working class is also included after "included", and it is added: "The central government believes that this kind of formulation in the past is inappropriate, but the opinions of Comrades Yin Yigang and Luo Yunlu of the Hebei Provincial Party School are correct." .