(March 6, 1960)
To the East China Bureau, all cooperative area committees, all provincial, municipal, and autonomous region Party committees, and all ministries, commissions, and Party leadership groups at the central level:

The analysis of the three issues in the rectification campaign written by the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee is correct. It should draw the attention of all of you, and concrete measures should be taken to gradually resolve these three major issues.

Central Committee
March 6, 1960

[I]
This directive was written on *Situation Briefing* No. 103, compiled and printed by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on March 1, 1960. The title was drafted by Mao Zedong. Under the heading *An Important Subject in the Party’s Ideological Construction*, this issue of the briefing excerpted part of the report by the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee on the situation of the rectification movement.

The report stated that this rectification movement has made us deeply aware that a considerable number of comrades within the Party are insufficiently prepared ideologically for the socialist revolution, primarily lacking the idea of uninterrupted revolution and carrying the socialist revolution through to the end. This is specifically manifested in the following three aspects:

First, in the revolution of ownership, there is a relatively widespread lack of understanding of the spontaneous capitalist tendencies among small producers and a section of the well-to-do middle peasants. Often, only the Party’s policy of uniting with the well-to-do middle peasants during a given historical period is seen, while the fundamental direction of thoroughly remolding small producers is overlooked. Therefore, resolving this issue of understanding is an important subject in the Party’s ideological education.

Second, in high-speed construction, a prominent problem is the insufficient ideological preparation for building socialism at high speed. A number of comrades do not understand that the entire 1960s must see continuous leaps forward, must maintain high speed, actively create conditions, and resolutely transition to communism. In agricultural management and administration, the influence of the small-peasant economy has not been completely cast off, making it far from capable of meeting the demands of the Great Leap Forward situation. Therefore, conducting ideological education on high-speed construction within the Party and overcoming the ideological influence of the small-peasant economy is also an important task in the Party’s ideological construction.

Third, in the political and ideological revolution, there is insufficient understanding of the importance of thoroughly eliminating bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideologies and habitual forces, and of establishing and consolidating the proletarian worldview. There is insufficient understanding of the protracted, complex, and tortuous nature of the class struggle on the political and ideological front, and its development in waves and undulations. There is insufficient understanding of the importance of studying Comrade Mao Zedong’s thought. The class struggle in the realm of ideology is underestimated and not given sufficient attention. Some comrades also lack a clear understanding of the relationship between continuous leaps forward on the economic front and uninterrupted revolution on the political and ideological front, thus neglecting to varying degrees the uninterrupted revolution on the political and ideological front.

Therefore, properly establishing among Party cadres the idea of integrating the theory of uninterrupted revolution with the theory of revolutionary development by stages, resolutely carrying the socialist revolution through to the end, accelerating construction, and preparing conditions for the transition to communism—this is one of the important contents of the Party’s ideological construction.