Analysis And Enlightenment Of Mass Psychology. "great Leap Forward" Movement

The movement of "Great Quantum Leap" is the model of socialist economic development we have chosen when groping for the constructional way at the beginning. Impersonally the happening of the movement is because of lack of experience in construction and acknowledge of the speed , phase, and rule of the socialist construction. Personally it is caused by the wrong decision of the superior court, especially Chairman Mao as the leader. Mentally the left impatience and rashness has worked greatly and the aberrant and illiberal populace mentality formed in the wrong situation has added the fuel to the fire to some degree.The academia and theoreticians have laid particular stress on the impersonal and personal factors and there have been many works on the cause of the "Great Quantum Leap" . However, the discussion on the mental factor is weak. This paper will discuss the populace mentality and the "Great Quantum Leap" from the point of the mental factor and link the mental tendency at the present time to probe into the methods to optimize the populace mental environment. We can absorb the historical lesson and the populace mentality will incline to benefit and escape from harm, and it will develop its strongpoint and avoid shortcoming to work positively.This paper will be divided into four parts to expound it.Part I is mainly about populace mentality and its characteristics. During the course of the social development, all political phenomena and political activities are represented by the action taken by the people or group involving in the course, and people' s political action will be regulated and controlled by their .mental factors. Theoretically populace mentality has its special connotation, characteristics and political meaning.Part II mainly analyzes the dominant tendency of populace mentality in the "Great Quantum Leap" . When facing the new course and new tribulation we have chosen the model of "Great Quantum Leap" to quicken socialist economic development due t0 lack of constructional experience. However, the dominant tendency of populace mentality during the movement has been reflected people' s firmness on the socialism, the common acknowledge of quickening of construction of socialist modernization andthe collective inclination involving in the mov-ment of "Great Quantum Leap" .Part III emphasizes on the populace mental aberrance in the movement "Great Quantum leap" . The populace mentality has the tendency of aberrance and illiberality. Such mentality has occurred as the profit-hungry mentality of petty farmers; worship of obedience; currying with mass blindly; fetish with experience; preferring left to right. The aberrant mentality resulted in such political actions as blindness and impulsion, fanaticism and babelism, and the negative function to political affairs.Part IV probes to optimize the populace mental environment and mold the populace mental diathesis according with the time. The purpose of analyzing the populace mentality is to summarize historical experience and study our reality. At the present time the populace mentality tends to develop in the active and healthy direction, while we must attach importance to some negative aspects of the populace mentality. The urgent affairs are to optimize the populace mental environment and mold the populace mental diathesis according with the time. To optimize the populace mentality is to develop character and morals of our country, to mold modern characteristics, to strengthen the realization of ownership, to revise the value tendency and to exert the positive effect of the populace conformity. We can take such measures and methods as to realize the democracy within the party and democratic politics in pursuit of democratic and scientific decisions, to strengthen the control over the populace mentality and avoid the illiberal and wrong tendency and improve the populace diathesis according to the "Four Desires"All in all, the inherent regularization of the social development as a natural and historical course can' t be transfo...