A Study on the Rectification Movement in the Jiaodong Revolutionary Base Area During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression: Centering on Criticism and Self-Criticism
Abstract
Criticism and self-criticism in the rectification movement in the Jiaodong Revolutionary Base Area during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were important practices of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to strengthen its own construction in the anti-Japanese struggle behind enemy lines, and are of great significance for understanding the laws of Party building in the enemy-occupied areas during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. From the background perspective, with the intensified expansion of international fascism and the domestic War of Resistance entering a difficult stage, Jiaodong faced not only external pressures from Japanese military "mopping-up operations" and attacks by die-hard elements, but also internal problems such as the interweaving of subjectivism, sectarianism, and Party stereotyped writing within the Party, as well as insufficient education for new Party members, making the rectification movement highly urgent. Combined with the specific practice of the central deployment in 1942 transmitted through the Northern Bureau and the establishment of the General Inspection Committee for Rectification in the Jiaodong area, the rectification movement in Jiaodong innovated ways to link hierarchical learning, wartime mobile criticism with mass supervision, achieving remarkable results in purifying the work style and enhancing organizational combat effectiveness. It was characterized by wide coverage of participation, targeted criticism, democratic and interactive process, and practical transformation of results. Continuously studying and attaching importance to this practice in the new era can provide a historical mirror for understanding the Party's self-renewal and empirical reference for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party.
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