The "Cultural Revolution" in Industrial and Mining Enterprises and the Repudiation of Tao Zhu

Abstract

At the time of the December work meeting, it was only in schools that people wanted to get rid of party organizations. Someone at the meeting proposed that they be reinstated, but the chairman said that there was no hurry. He also said that the [party] organizations at the provincial-committee level could also be temporarily dismantled and that this did not matter, since there still were party organizations at and below the district-committee level. The fact was, however, that party organizations were being dismantled wherever the "Great Cultural Revolution" made its appearance. According to the "Sixteen Articles, " the Cultural Revolution, as a rule, should not have been conducted in such grass-roots organizations as industrial and mining enterprises and in the rural areas. It should have been conducted only in party and government organizations as well as in educational and cultural departments in large and medium-sized cities. Nor should it have been conducted, as a rule, in district committees, but only in those that fell under the jurisdiction of large and medium-sized cities. Industrial and mining enterprises and the rural areas should, as a rule, have continued to engage in the "Four Cleanups." The armed forces were definitely not to conduct the "Cultural Revolution." This was the chairman's decision.