Chapter 96 Against bureaucracy, commandism and lawlessness

(January 5, 1953) The central bureaus and sub-bureaus also transferred to the provincial, municipal, prefectural and county party committees, and informed the central departments and the party groups of the Central People's Government: The Central Committee received the "Report on Opinions on Opposing Bureaucracy, Commandism, and Violation of the Law and Discipline" [1] issued by the Disciplinary Inspection Committee of the Shandong Branch Bureau on November 17, 1952, and it is hereby forwarded to you (original text 18,000 1000 characters, now compressed to 6000 characters).The Central Committee believes that it is very good and completely necessary for the Shandong branch to expose many bad people and bad things in the party and government organizations that are extremely harmful to the people and put forward suggestions to solve the problem.This matter should call the attention of our leading organs at all levels.This problem is not limited to Shandong, but also to the whole country.In the "Three Antis", our party has basically solved the two problems of corruption and waste among many staff members at the four levels of the central government, large administrative regions, provinces and special regions, and basically solved the problems of many leaders and government officials who are led. The bureaucratic problem of this part of the breakaway;

However, if you don’t understand the suffering of the people, don’t understand the situation of being a little far away from your work organization, don’t understand that there are many bad people and bad deeds who are command-oriented and violate the law and discipline among the county, district, and township cadres, or Some people have some understanding of bad people and bad things, but they turn a blind eye, do not arouse righteous indignation, and do not feel the seriousness of the problem, so they do not take active measures to support good people, punish bad people, promote good things, and eliminate bad things. In many aspects and many departments, it is still basically unresolved.For example, regarding the handling of letters from the people, it is reported that the Shandong provincial government has a backlog of more than 70,000 letters that have not been processed. We do not yet know how many letters from the people have been backlogged by party and government organizations at all levels below the province, but it is conceivable that there are many.Most of these people's letters have problems and ask us to solve them. Many of them accuse cadres of lawless crimes and should be dealt with quickly.This is the case in Shandong. What is the situation in various provinces and cities? We have not received a report like the one reported by the Shandong branch, but there are already a lot of materials that can be judged. There are many places that are similar to the situation in Shandong.Bureaucratism and commandism are not only a big problem at present in our party and government, but will also be a big problem for a long time to come.As far as its social origin is concerned, it is a matter of reflection in our party and government of the remnants of the reactionary ruling class's reactionary style of dealing with the people (the style of anti-people, the style of the Kuomintang).As far as the leadership tasks and leadership methods of our party and government organizations are concerned, this is a problem that the assignment of work tasks is not related to the explanation of policy boundaries and work style, that is, the policy boundaries and work style have not been repeatedly repeated along with the work tasks. Issues instructed to middle and lower-level cadres.This is because cadres at all levels, especially cadres at the county, district, and township levels, have not been censored, or the censorship has not been done well.This is a matter of the fact that the Party consolidation work at the county, district, and township levels has not yet been carried out, and the struggle against commandism and the elimination of law-breakers and law-breakers has not yet been carried out in the Party consolidation process.This is the problem that bureaucratism, which is ignorant of and indifferent to the suffering of the people and indifferent to the conditions of grassroots organizations, still exists among the staff of high-level organs above our prefectural area, and has yet to fight against it and eliminate it. .If our leadership tasks are strengthened and our leadership methods are improved, the bureaucracy and commandism that endanger the masses can be gradually reduced, and many of our party and government organizations can be separated from the Kuomintang style earlier.But the many bad people who have been in our party and government organizations can be eliminated as soon as possible, and the many bad things that currently exist can be eliminated as soon as possible.Therefore, please follow the example of Shandong’s method in 1953 and combine party consolidation and party building with other work, start with handling letters from the people, check the situation of bureaucratism, commandism, and law-breakers, and launch a resolute struggle against them.Please study the Shandong documents carefully and publish them in the party journal.All typical examples of bureaucracy, commandism and violation of laws and regulations should be widely exposed in newspapers.Those who violate the law seriously must be punished by law. If they are party members, they must enforce party discipline.Party committees at all levels should be determined to punish and remove those violators hated by the masses and remove them from the party and government organizations.In addition, all the energy in the Shandong document is devoted to exposing bad people and bad things. It is necessary to do so, so as to arouse the attention of comrades in the whole party.But when the extensive struggle against bad people and bad things has reached an appropriate stage, typical good people and good things in various places should be investigated, analyzed and praised, so that the whole party can follow these good models, promote righteousness and overwhelm evil.We believe that there must be many such typical good people and good deeds in Shandong and other places.

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China January 5, 1953 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] The report of the Disciplinary Inspection Committee of the Shandong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China stated: The phenomenon of coercive orders and violation of laws and disciplines among cadres of grass-roots organizations in provinces, districts, townships, and villages (including some cadres above the county level) has developed to the extreme. However, many leading organs have adopted a bureaucratic attitude towards these serious mistakes of grassroots cadres, turning a blind eye and being indifferent.Some leading organs of the party and government unprincipledly appease and defend cadres when the masses complain to them or take other measures to fight against those cadres who violate the law and discipline.Facts have proved that the bureaucratic style of work is a breeding ground for cadres to coerce orders and violate laws and disciplines; opposing bureaucracy is the key to correcting cadres who coerce orders and violate laws and disciplines.These phenomena should be resolutely fought in conjunction with the current central task and party consolidation work.In this struggle, cadres who have made mistakes should be dealt with through a combination of ideological education and disciplinary punishment. Bad elements who have sneaked into our various organizations and those who have completely degenerated and become incurable should be resolutely purged. go out.