The Exploration And Analysis Of The Differences Between Mao Zedong And Liu Shaoqi In The "Si Qing" Movement

"Si Qing" Movement is a very important moment in the study of the differences betweet Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi. In this movement, the contradiction and divergent between them which accumulated a very long time have come out. And it becomes the reason of Mao Zedong to launch "The Cultural Revolution".The differences between Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi in the "Si Qing" Movement mainly run as follows: the means of the principal contradiction and nature about the movement; the means of the method and arrangement about the movement; the means of the leadership control about the movement.The essences of the differences between Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi in the "Si Qing" Movement are: the confliction between the logic of revolution and production; the confliction of the people first and the elitism; the confliction of emphasizing contradiction and opposition and stressing principle and stability.The differences between Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi in the "Si Qing" Movement have initiated a series of serious consequences: make the thought and theoretical preparation for "The Cultural Revolution"; make the preparation for Liu Shaoqi struke down completely in "The Cultural Revolution"; and have strengthened the Maoist centralized authority pattern.The sincere reflection and summary the lesson of the essences and consequences derived from the differences between Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi in the "Si Qing Movement" gives us a great inspiration. Nowadays, in the process of reform and open policy and socialist modernization, we must insist on Party's collective leadership principle, and expand the democracy within the Party and the people's democracy, and strengthen the Party's institution construction, and build perfect authority supervision and countervail mechanism. Only in this way, can it provide the reliable political safeguard for our country's socialist modernization.