Chapter 33 The Bias of Componentism Should Be Avoided for Intellectuals

(May 21, 1948) Enlai, Qiaomu[1]: The two documents[2] of 1933 were handed over to the correspondent this morning and returned to you.Now I feel that it is inappropriate to speak incompletely about the intellectual part.The original document said that those who came from landlords were landlords, those who came from rich peasants were rich peasants, and those who came from middle peasants were middle peasants.However, it must be added that according to the occupations of intellectuals, for example, those who join the army are soldiers; those who join the government are government employees; those who join production enterprises are workers, clerks, technicians or engineers; Writers and artists, etc., will not focus on the aspect of social origin, but on the aspect of social occupation, so as to avoid the bias of the only component theory.Please revise the above and send it out after consideration.

Mao Zedong fifteen thirty on the twenty-first Printed from transcripts kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Qiao Mu, that is, Hu Qiaomu (1912-1992), was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu.At that time, he was the president of Xinhua News Agency and Mao Zedong's secretary. [2] Refers to "How to Analyze Rural Classes" and "About Some Issues in the Land Struggle" issued by the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic in October 1933 to correct the "Left" errors in the Agrarian Revolution and correctly solve the land problem. decision".These two documents put forward the criteria for classifying rural classes and stipulated some specific issues of class division.After making some revisions to these two documents, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China reissued them to party committees at all levels for implementation on May 25, 1948.Mao Zedong’s opinion on the distinction between social background and social occupation of intellectuals put forward in this article was added in the form of “explanation” to the intellectual part of “Decisions on Some Issues in the Agrarian Struggle”. "How to Analyze Rural Classes" has been included in the first volume of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong".