**Revisions to the Draft Directive of the United Front Work Department on Several Issues Concerning the Handling of Matters at the Conclusion of the Three-Antis Movement Among the Democratic Parties and Groups (March 27, 1952)**

Some parties and groups had planned to adopt the method of ideological examination, that is, to conduct rectification-style reviews and criticisms targeting individual thoughts, and to require the individuals concerned to state their positions. We consider this method inappropriate and have already suggested that they refrain from using it. This is because the democratic parties and groups inherently include representatives from various sections of the bourgeoisie, the urban upper petty bourgeoisie, as well as some elements who have split off from the landlord class and bear capitalist characteristics. Compared with the Communist Party, they naturally hold different class standpoints and ideologies. So long as they do not violate the Common Program, we cannot demand that they measure up to the standards of the Communist Party. During the period of New Democracy, that is, the period in which the existence of the bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie is permitted, if we demand that they conform to the standpoints and ideology of the working class and abandon their own bourgeois and petty-bourgeois standpoints and ideology, the result will either be chaos or will force them into pretense. This would be detrimental to the united front and is also illogical. In a period when the existence of the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie is permitted, the notion of not allowing the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie to have their own standpoints and ideology is a departure from Marxism and is a naive and ridiculous idea. During the Three-Antis and Five-Antis movements, some Party members in our Party have already developed such erroneous thinking, which should be corrected.

Printed based on Mao Zedong's revised manuscript.

**Note**
〔1〕 The text printed in Song typeface in this piece is the text rewritten by Mao Zedong.