The Anti-rightist Struggle Of The Political And Legal Circles

The Anti-Rightist Movement was not only the results of a series of left mistakes after the founding of new China, but the beginning of a series of left mistakes from then on. This movement has important effects in both the history of Chinese thoughts and the history of the Socialist Construction. There are few researches about the Anti-Rightist Movement in the political and legal fields. There had been gradual developments of the legal system construction, however, the legal thoughts and ideas which were beneficial for Socialist Construction were criticized and abandoned simply after the Anti-Rightist Movement. Then, class struggle and legal nihilism prevailed, socialist legal system were tramped rudely, which brought huge damage to our nation and people. Therefore, the research about the Anti-Rightist Movement in the political and legal fields not only has significant academic value, but can summarize the experience and the lesson of history, which has important realistic meaning to build a socialistic country by law.The paper includes the introduction and five parts:The introduction presents the significance of the thesis, the status quo of the study, its trend of development and the definition of the basic concept.The first part reviews the"Free Expression of the Opinion"and the Movement of Rectifying the Working Style of The Party in the politics and law circles in Beijing. In order to resolve the contradictions among Chinese people after China's entry into socialism, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward the policies of'letting a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend'and was determined to rectify subjectivism, bureaucratism and sectarianism. Altough the politics and law circles in Beijing had been worried in the beginning, they positively responded to the call afterwards, all individual units of the politics and law circles and the educational institutions of the science of law took part in the the Movement.The second part is a summary of the suggestions of the"Free Expression of the Opinion"in the politics and law circles in Beijing. Regarding certain importatnt theortical issues in the science of law and a number of defects and problems existing in the building of the new Chinese legal system and the education of the science of law, people working in the circles put forward a series of opinions and suggestions of important theotical and practical value.The third part analyzes the process and features of the Anti-Rightist Movement in the politics and law circles in Beijing. The process of the Anti-Rightist Movement includes three stages of the launch of the movement, the animadvert of the Rightist and its settlement. The features of The Anti-Rightist Movement are: the so-called phenomenon of"Rightist Intensification"became very obvious. They had very special identities and mostly the out-of-date supporters of the movement---- out-of-date judicial personnel and teachers of the science of law; they had been having conspiracies, so the Rightist were ferreted out the root deeply when they were criticized;deliberately distorting the higher plane of principles, disproving all theories of the Rightist through the nature of class stuggle and replacing academic animadvert by political animadvert.The fourth part is the extension and consequence of the Anti-Rightist Movement in the politicas and law circles in Beijing. The extension includes the extension of the nature of the Rightist, its quantity and the settlement. The serious result of the extention led to the retroversion of the study of the science of law, the calamities of the Legal professionals and the decline of the building of the legal system.The fifth part is the conclusion."The Free Expression of the Opinion"and the Movement of Rectifying the Working Style of The Party are the important moments of the building of the legal system in China. The rule of law in China could have been realized earlier if the appropriate suggestions that suited China's actual conditions proposed by the people working in the politics and law circles had been taken and implimented. However, the Anti-Rightist Movement reversed the trend and afterwards'the rule of man'gained the upper hand, eventually leading to the outbreak of the'Cultural Revolution'. Nevertheless, we must draw lessons from the past to avoid being off the beam.