Mobilization And Integration

The Instruction to Purge the Counterrevolutionaries in the Industrial and Mining Enterprises and Launch the Democratic Reform Campaign,,a document issued by Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in November 1951,started the democratic reform campaign in the industrial and mining enterprises.Its essence is to integrate the social power through the political campaign,including ascertain the background of workers and purge the factories of the " counterrevolutionaries ",in order to reconstruct the power system within the factories.The campaign had been suited the requirement of constructing the ideological discourse that "working class is the leading class" in order to establish the Party's organizational control over the social power.The campaign began within the state-owned enterprises and then spread to the private sector.Contrary to the campaign to suppress counterrevolutionary which had a large-scale purge of "counterrevolutionaries",the democratic reform campaign in industrial and mining enterprises only aimed at the "counterrevolutionaries" within the factories,and its process was relatively moderate.By the campaign,the CPC became the leading power in organizational leadership and ideological domination.Meanwhile,by reforming the labor unions and the Communist Youth League and by the organizational expansion of the Party during the process,the campaign eventually reshaped these organizations and achieved an effective purge of the"counterrevolutionaries".Being mobilized to complain and confess,the workers had to break with the old society.By emphasizing the importance of revolution and produce,the Party made the workers embrace a new statism concept of labor and become the "New Socialist Man".At the same time,in response to the ideological pursuit that "the working class is the leading class",the Party shaped the workers' sense of their identity and status as "New China's Master" by stressing the concept of "master" that implied opposition to "enemy" and starting to practice workers managing factories.The Party had been increasingly emphasizing the importance of production since the establishment of the People's Republic of China(PRC),nevertheless,it still kept the elements of its revolutionary legacy,including organizational mobilization,class struggle,and emotional mobilization,which highlights the changes and invariabilities in the labor movement.Moreover,the democratic reform campaign has a social integration function of destroy the old and establish the new.The campaign had been an effective way to break the old organizational type and construct the new power system,reshape workers' identities by entitling the status of master.