Between Revolution And Exercising Powers As A Ruling Party:the Research Into The8Th Central Committee Of Chinese Communist Party(CCP)

The8th Central Committee of CCP was not only the first Central Committee after the foundation of People's Republic of China, but also the first central leader group which was elected after CCP had been transformed from a revolutionary party to a ruling party. The Central Committee made up of large quantities of revolutionists, demonstrated distinctive revolutionary features in their drive to promote party and socialist modernization construction. These features were related to both the situation of the party at that time and the feature of the membership structure of the Central Committee, whose focus swung between revolution and exercising powers as a ruling party. It made practical innovation and theoretical breakthrough in their exploration into the issues of "What is socialism ","How to build socialism","what kind of party should we build" and "How to build the party" and thus contributed to the most imposing socialist modernization prospect of CCP'S conducting self-construction and leading the people to carve a socialist road with Chinese Characteristics during the30years since the foundation of new China.However, the8th Central Committee of CCP failed to break the boundary of taking class struggle as the key link and gradually led to the dead end of Cultural Revolution in their exploration into building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Some personal factors of the leaders in the8th Central Committee of CCP such as Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi, the collective responsibilities and the organization structure as well as the operation mechanism combined to contribute to the situation. History has proven that the majority of the8th Central Committee of CCP were on the right line of the struggle and the committee stood the test of the time.On the basis of the summary on the Central Committee construction explored by proletarian classic writers and CCP's exploration into the same problem before the8th Congress of CCP in Chapter1, the author probes into the formation process, the membership structure, the composition characteristics, the distinctive revolutionists features of the leader group, and the special collective consciousness and morals of soldiers of the8th Central Committee of CCP in Chapter2, and its structure features and its executive objectives.The author elaborates on the proactive exploration into socialism drive by the8th CCP Central Committee during its term of service in economy, politics, culture, ideology and foreign affairs from Chapter3to Chapter6respectively, points out its major achievements and its deficiencies and outlines the ruling guideline, ruling logics and strategies of the8th CCP Central Committee and the influence exerted on its ruling logics and performance by the organizatior features and structures of the8th CCP Central Committee. In chapter7, the author mainly probes into the relationship between the8th CCP Central Committee and Cultural Revolution and draws a conclusion that it was the misunderstanding of the committee on "What is socialism","How to build socialism","what kind of party should we build" and "How to build the party" that led to the mistakes in economy, politics, ideology, culture, foreign affairs, and the construction of CCP especially the leadership mechanism of CCP during the process of socialism construction. And these mistakes aggravated to such a situation that the8th CCP Central Committee developed social productivity and self-construction through "political movement" and "revolutionary measures" and finally brought to the formation of the development guideline of taking class struggle as a key link. Coupled by the divergence on such problems as "What is socialism","How to build socialism","what kind of party should we build" and "How to build the party" and "cultural revolution" among the8th CCP Central Committee members, all these problems resulted in the breaking out of Cultural Revolution, which dealt a deadly blow to both the leader group of CCP and the leadership mechanism and operation mechanism of the Central Committee.On the basis of rational assessment on the achievements made by the8th CCP Central Committee, in chapter8, the author scientifically summarizes the experience on the construction of the committee itself and its experience as a ruling party. The author comes to an important conclusion that the Central Committee should rule the country by law, keep pace with the time in accordance with the real situation of the society, the country and the party, establish democratic decision mechanism, strengthen the supervision mechanism over the leader group of CCP Central Committee, set up the mechanism to prevent and correct mistakes, intensify the study on Marxism theories so as to improve the understanding of such important theories and practical problems as "What is socialism","How to build socialism","What kind of party should we build " and "How to build the party"The Central Committee of CCP is the organ of the supreme power during the adjournment of National People's Congress. The summary on the experience in building the committee itself and exercising powers as a ruling party will be of great value and theoretical significance to the building of the current CCP Central Committee.