THREE LEADERS OF CHINA WORKERS-PEASANTS DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONFESS IDEOLOGICAL ERRORS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060312-7
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 312
• Publication Date: May 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELL ENCEOAGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Political - Party purge
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Peiping
DATE
PUBLISHED 7 Feb 19732
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
THREE LEADER:. OF CHINA WORKERS-PEASANTS
DEMOCRLTIC PF,FY CONFESS IDEOLOGICIAL ERRORS
On 7 February 1952, the Peiping Jen-min Jih-pao carried an article written
by Yen Hsin-min, director, Propaganda Department, Central Work Committee, China
Workers-Peasants Democratic Party, in wh_ch confessions by three members of the
pnr'ro's Central Committee /^ nos
T_~ ^h ~........~ not gi?ren were averred. Yen quoted from Mao
s opening speech at the Third Session of the First National C -'sittee
cf the CPPCC (Chinese People's Pol tical Consultative Conference), 23 October..
1951, as follows:
"Chair zn Mao has said that The remoulding of ideology, primarily the ide-
ological remoulding of the various t?Ipes of intellectuals, is an important con-
dition =or the thorough implementation of democratic reforms in various fields
and the gradual implementation of the industrialization of our country." Yen
represented the con?es3icas of the three Central Committee members as being "not
sufficiently thorough ' These confessions were made at the Sixth All-China Cadre
Meeting, China Workers-Peasants Democratic Party which convened "after the Third
Session of the First Nat-onal Cormfttee of the CPPCC."
The relevant portion of the article follows:
"The Workers-Peasants Party had a revolutionary and progressive side in that
it had opposed imperialism and feudalism, however, it also had a counterrevolu-
tionary side in that it had no faith in the USSR and opposed Communism. From its
revolutionary and progressive side, it went forward and developed, of course.
But, because of its counterrevolutionary side, it gave counterrevolutionaries the
opportunity to infiltrate its ranks. Party apparatus was relatively pure after
having undergone party rectificnt, ion, sturl.y, and suppression of counterrevolution-
aries. There remained, however, a doubt which has yet to be carefully cleared
away. This is clearly attested to in the confessions of three mrnbers of the
Central Committee /of the China Workers -Peasants Democratic Party at this he
Sixth All-China Cadre Meeting.
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"In the past, all three have certainly gone through a stage of revolution-
ary activity and have been in the party for a long time. Since they were satu-
rated with calculations of personal interests and deficient in the people's
standpoint, they made ideological mistakes. In committing these mistakes, both
large and small, on the political level, a severe setback was delivered to faith
in the party and the interests of the people. Their confessions are not suf-
ficiently thorough, and all three, in confessing to motivationism, subjectivism,
confused ideology, and petit bourgeois ideology, made light of their personal
guilt. The people will not accept such fc-onfessionss7."
Yen goes on to promise, hovever, that the Chinia Workers-Peasants Democratic
Party, "formerly opposed to Communism and the Chinese Communist Party. . .and be-
lieving that the Chinese Revolution would not be successful and would eventually
end in defeat under the leadership of the Communist International and the Chinese
Communist Party..." will be cleared of bourgeois, petit bourgeois, and reaction-
ary ideology and proponents.
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