Socialist Construction and Politics in China

Studies in the Communitist System

Abstract

Although it is a general tendency that politics play a very important role in the socialist construction, overbalanced emphasis on the role of politics would obstruct the construction.
After the tide of the socialist revolution during 1955 in China, alleviating measures toward the bourgeoisie were applied and the socialist construction was strongly promoted. As a result, strong anti-party movement in 1959 of right wing bourgeoisies was reared in.
Therefore, the anti-right-wing campaign and rectification movement were carried on side by side, and it helped to fundamentally overcomet he bourgeois idea, the anti-socialistic and bureaucratic elements and the right-wing conservative elements. It also achieved great success in realizing the Great-leap-forward movement and the People's Commune.
However, if the importance of politics were unreasonably emphasized, the non-political elements in the construction would inevitably be neglected. This greatly prevented the development of the construction in 1959 and 1960, and the direction of the construction was to be diverted in 1961.