Chapter 71 Prevent "Left" Mistakes in Implementing Policies

(October 18, 1940) Ye Xiang, Hu Fu, Chen Yi, Ke Cheng (Hu Fu Zhuan), Xue Feng, read first and told Peng Yang, Liu Deng, Yang Song, Chen Luo, Zhu Rui[1]: Because the cadres at the middle and lower levels were not thoroughly understood, and because the superiors did not prevent and check in time, many places made ultra-left mistakes, mainly in land policy, labor policy, fiscal policy, anti-rape policy, policy on intellectuals, and policy on captives. , the policy towards the Kuomintang personnel, and my political organization have been too left.As a result, our social base was narrowed, the middle forces were feared, and the Japanese invaders, Wang Ni, and diehards were given the opportunity to compete for the masses to reunite with the reactionary forces.Waiting for mistakes to be corrected after they are formed has caused us great losses.Now that the work in central China is developing (Shandong is also the same), you must prevent your subordinates from making leftist mistakes when implementing policies. You must understand that "leftist" mistakes are the main danger at present, and you must check the work of your subordinates in time and correct their leftist actions, otherwise you will be defeated by the enemy. It is impossible to win the great victory of the development and consolidation of our party and our army in the pincer attack with the diehards, and to persist in the base areas for a long time.I hope you will sharply bring this matter to the attention of the whole party and the whole army, and don't take it lightly.

Central Secretariat October 18 Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Ye Xiang refers to Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, who were the commander and deputy commander of the New Fourth Army respectively at that time.Hu Fu, namely Liu Shaoqi.Chen Yi was the commander and political commissar of the North Jiangsu Command of the New Fourth Army at that time.Kecheng, namely Huang Kecheng, was the commander and political commissar of the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army at that time.Xuefeng, also known as Peng Xuefeng, was the commander of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army at the time.Xiannian, that is, Li Xiannian, was the commander of the Henan-Hubei advance column of the New Fourth Army at that time.Peng, referring to Peng Dehuai, who was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army at the time; Yang, referring to Yang Shangkun, who was then secretary of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Liu Deng refers to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who were respectively the commander and political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army at that time.Yang, refers to Yang Xiufeng (1897-1983), a native of Qian’an, Hebei, who was then the director of the Joint Administrative Office of Southern Hebei, Taihang, and Taiyue.Song, refers to Song Renqiong, born in 1909, from Liuyang, Hunan, and served as a political commissar of the Eighth Route Army's Southern Hebei Military Region at that time.Chen Luo refers to Chen Guang and Luo Ronghuan, who were acting commander and political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at that time.Zhu Rui was then Secretary of the Shandong Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Political Commissar of the First Column of the Eighth Route Army.