The Research Topic On The Unti-Previlege Function Of Chinese Communist Party’s Mass Line

The mass line is the Party’s fundamental political line, playing a crucial role in the democratic revolution, socialist construction and reform period. The flesh-and-blood tie between the Party and the people is the Party’s biggest advantage in governing and rejuvenating the country. While with the changing situation of the Party and the country, some leading cadres in the Party and government organs abuse the power to suppress law and to seek personal gains. Such privileges phenomenon seriously violates the Party’s aim of serving the people with heart and soul. The lesson of history warns us that divorcing from the people and seeking privileges would directly affect the Party’s survival.Privilege is the largest hidden peril for the Party to govern and rejuvenate the country. In face of the country’s tough period of reforms, it is extremely urgent and necessary to counter against privileges. The people are the foundation of the Party’s ruling as well as the source of power. The mass line is a powerful weapon for countering against privileges. The mass line allows the people, the givers of public power, supervising the leading cadres, making public power running in the sunshine. Under the guidance of the mass line, leading cadres are required to destroy privilege thoughts and build up correct masses consciousness on ideological sense, also to provide practical service performing as leading examples without abusing privileges on behavior sense.The mass line which affirms the dominant position of people and relies on people’s wisdom and strength is a must method to destroy privilege thoughts and behaviors. At present, the mass line plays an important role in directing ideology, supervising power, and regulating behaviors, which to some extent exerts deterrent effect on the leading cadres and helps to clean up privilege thoughts and behaviors.At present, there are some obstacles affecting the mass line’s performance in countering privileges. Ideologically, some leading cadres are deeply influenced by official standard thinking and could easily initiate privilege thoughts. Institutionally, the highly Party-centralized management system could easily breed privilege acts among Party heads. Systematically, although the mass line is emphasized as the dominant role on theoretical level, it lacks system protection while in practice, which will easily lead to formal democratic supervision with little effect on supervising the party cadres. It is because of above problems that the mass line performs a poor work in countering privilege. Countermeasures should be taken to ensure a good environment mechanism for the mass line to perform its functions in countering against privileges.