Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi Soviet Area Counter-insurgency Movement Commentary

This article firstly divides the movement of elimination of counterrevolutionaries in the Chinese Soviet areas of Xiang E Gan (the provinces of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi) into some stages, then from the historical angle ponders and concludes over the damages to our Part's career, the causes and the lessons of magnifying the elimination of counterrevolutionaries in the Soviet areas.一Since the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by Mao Zedong in the Hunan-Jiangxi border region, the people in the border region of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, led by the Chinese Communist Party, have struggled hard and achieved a lot. The movement of elimination of counterrevolutionaries in the Soviet areas proceeded from a good subjective desire and at the beginning safeguarded the Soviet areas to some degree. Although the movement was simplified and magnified, the mistakes and damages caused by it were kept within certain limits because Li Zongbai brought forward three principles of elimination of counterrevolutionaries. When the group of "Left" deviation led by Wang Ming arrived in the Soviet areas, the emphasis of the movement was transferred from society to the within of the Party, as a result of which the movement was pricked up and formed into a stage of crimes.二The damage caused by magnifying the movement of elimination of counterrevolutionaries in the Soviet areas is tremendous. Just as He Long, who was suffered from the disaster of "Left" deviation, said that the Chinese Soviet areas were broken down by ourselves, not by JiangJieshi. The damages of magnifying the movement were mainly manifested at the following four aspects.1. Weakening the leading power of the Party and the government seriously.2. Influencing the arming construction in the Soviet areas seriously.3. Weakening the revolutionary power in the Soviet areas seriously.4. Causing a serious panic in the Soviet areas.三The causes of magnifying the elimination of counterrevolutionaries in the Soviet areas are very complicated.1.The movement was badly influenced by the "Left" deviation of Soviet Union.2.The movement was badly influenced by the policies from the superiors.3. The movement was badly influenced by the thought of petty bourgeoisie and the left thought of feudalism.4. The movement was badly influenced by the subjective idealism of thinking style.5. The Party was young and not mature, and the theoretical level of the members of the Party was not high.6. The movement was badly influenced by the white panic in the base areas.7. In the movement the majority made mistakes for good subjective desires while the minority served the devil for their evil purposes.四The lessons drawn from the movement of elimination of counterrevolutionaries in the Soviet areas are very bitter valuable. They were acquired at the price of the people' s blood in the Soviet areas and weshouldn't and can't forget these blooding lessons. Just as Deng Xiaoping thought the "Cultural Revolution" contributed, the movement of elimination of counterrevolutionaries in the Soviet areas also did good to us, because it offered us a lesson learnt from negative experience. We should pay attention to the contribution of the movement and regard it as our wealth.1. It is the most profound lesson to torture suspects and readily believe confessions.2. It made the case workers not think over and the suspects have no time to appeal to carry out the policy of arresting widely, arresting quickly and executing quickly.3. The movement was once divorced from the Party' s collective leading and was cut off from the masses' supervision.4. The movement was not democratic and juridical.5. The leaders of the movement were lack of Marxist quantitative analysis.Engels said that a great class, just as a great people, would learn faster from mistakes than from any other aspects. Mao Zedong also said that the historical lessons should be paid attention to. Really, we must keep the lessons from the movement of elimination of counterrevolutionar...