Prudent And Balance:Local Response In The Anti-Rightist Campaign

The most distinguishing feature of the Anti-Rightist Campaign of the direct offices in Jiangjin County is the leading group basically maintained a cautious attitude.Through the ingenious responses to the policies by the higher authority, the leading group ultimately minimized the number of "rightists" and avoided the Anti-Rightist Campaign going to extremes. The changes of the percentage of "rightists" show that the quota in a political campaign may not be a requirement and that is more likely generates from the interaction between the organizers of the campaign and its higher authorities.The Anti-Rightist Campaign of the direct offices in Jiangjin indicates that local responses in political campaigns have multiple facets. When the Anti-Rightist Campaign launched at the grass-roots, it was not as stereotypes as people thought.The grass-roots leaders may have independent judgment of the local actual situation, or affected by the objective situation, adapted the directives from the higher authorities, which reflects the political "wisdom" of the grass-roots.The achievement of relative rationality was based on the space existed in the superior-subordinate interactions in the CCP.