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Review Review of Mao Zedong's relevant manuscripts after the founding of New China , as well as real records of Mao Zedong's conversations. We can see Mao Zedong's sharp satirical and criticism of official spirit, official airs and bureaucratic style everywhere, and there are also humorous conversations.
is not allowed to write instructions in the house
"Now, there is a part of our party and government organs that is very unhealthy. This is serious bureaucracy... They are separated from the masses, separated from the actual situation below, and write resolutions and instructions in the house. Resolutions and instructions fly out like snowflakes. What is the situation below? Can it be implemented? Don't worry. Just sit in the house and don't go down to check, just pay attention to the so-called arrangement work, but don't pay attention to the inspection work."
- in National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Speech at the closing meeting of the fourth session of the first session (February 7, 1953)
[Collected Works of Mao Zedong" Volume 6]
Scolding people who are profitable and are confused
"Officials can be powerful and blind. Being the first secretary is also a profit, and it is easy to make your mind dizzy. When you are so confused, you have to use some method to scold him."
- Speech at the meeting of the Party Secretary of the Provincial, Municipal and Autonomous Region Party Committees of the Municipal and Autonomous Regions - Speech at the meeting of the Party Committee of the Provincial, Municipal and Autonomous Regions (January 27, 1957)
[Collected Works of Mao Zedong]
Don’t pretend to behave
"We now have some articles, which are full of spirit, but they have no etiquette, can’t analyze problems, can’t tell the truth, and are not persuasive. ... When writing articles yourself, don’t always think about ‘How clever I am,’ but should adopt an attitude of being completely equal to readers. The bigger your ambitions are, the more people ignore your style, the less people like to read your articles. We should do things honestly, analyze things, and be persuasive to write articles. Don’t scare people by pretending to be scattered."
— Speech at the National Propaganda Work Conference of the Communist Party of China (March 12, 1957)
[Collected Works of Mao Zedong]
Don’t put on bureaucratic arrogance
"Our comrades should pay attention to not rely on officials, do not rely on high positions, do not rely on old qualifications, ... We must rely on solving problems correctly. Rely on correctness, not on qualifications. If you can’t make a living by relying on qualifications, you can’t make a living by relying on qualifications, so you can’t make a living by relying on qualifications. It means that you don’t make a living by any official, just don’t make a man’s airs, don’t put on bureaucratic arrogance, put aside the airs, meet the people, and meet with the subordinates."
—Speech at the Nanjing Party Members and Cadres Conference (March 20, 1957)
[Included in the seventh volume of "Mao Zedong's Works" entitled "Adhere to Hard Work and Keep in Tightness and Reaching the Mass"]
must destroy the official style
" Treat cadres and the masses with a truly equal attitude. People must feel that people's relationships with each other are indeed equal, and that people feel that your heart is given to them. ... People's work is different and their positions are different, but no matter how old the official is, anyone must appear among the people as an ordinary worker. Never allow airs to be put on airs. You must be able to listen patiently to the different opinions put forward by subordinates and consider them. Don't be angry when you hear different opinions from yourself, think that it is Disrespect yourself. This is one of the conditions for treating others with an equal attitude. "
—"Sixty Work Methods (Draft)" (January 1958)
["Collected Works" Volume 7]
Official spirit is the lowest-level fun
" Some of us cadres are the best in the world, look down on people, and make a living by qualifications. Once we become officials, especially when we become high-ranking officials, we are unwilling to appear as ordinary workers. This is a very bad phenomenon. If most cadres can appear as ordinary workers, then these few cadres will be isolated and can change the habit of bureaucracy.By being a high-ranking official and being a qualified person, it hinders creativity. Therefore, to eliminate the official spirit, to eliminate the official spirit, and to eliminate this official spirit among cadres. Whoever has reason will obey whoever is right, no matter whether it is the manure picker, the coal miner, or the poor farmers, as long as the truth is in their hands, they must obey them. If your official position is very large, but the truth is not in your hands, you cannot obey you. Let me say again, if most cadres wipe out the official spirit, the remaining people will easily wipe out even if they have the official spirit because they are isolated. Official spirit is a kind of low-level fun, putting on airs, showing off qualifications, being unequal to others, and looking down on others. This is the lowest fun, this is not the noble communist spirit . Appearing in the posture of an ordinary worker is a high-level interest and a noble communist spirit. ”
——Speech at the Second Session of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (May 20, 1958)
[Included in the seventh volume of "Mao Zedong's Works", the title is "Cadres must appear as ordinary workers"]
The first thing that destroys discipline is the men
"Our experience, if cadres do not put down their airs and different workers become one, workers often do not regard the factory as their own, but as cadres. The master's etiquette of cadres makes workers unwilling to consciously abide by labor discipline, and the masters are often the first to undermine labor discipline. ...I am very worried that our cadres and children have no life experience or social experience, but they are very arrogant and have a great sense of superiority. We must educate them not to rely on their parents, not to rely on martyrs, but to rely entirely on themselves. "
- A conversation about reading the Soviet Union's "Political Economics Textbook" (excerpt) (December 1959 to February 1960)
[Selected Works of Mao Zedong" Volume 8]
officials have grown bigger, and investigations have been done less
" Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially in recent years, we have not made a big survey on the actual situation, probably the officials have grown bigger. I am a senior official. I used to do very little research in Jiangxi. I will do some work this year. This meeting is over. I want to go to a place to do some research. "
- Speech at the Working Conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (January 13, 1961)
[Included in the eighth volume of "Collected Works of Mao Zedong", it was titled "The Wind of Investigation and Research"]
Today I will notify you tomorrow, and you can only report it as a fake report
" We need to do a systematic investigation and research from history to current situation. The first secretary of the provincial party committee must conduct investigations and research personally. I am also the first secretary, and I only arrest the first secretary. Other secretaries also need to conduct investigations and research, and you are responsible for arresting them. As long as the first secretary of the four-level party committees at the provincial, prefecture, county and community levels conducts investigations and research, things will be easier. ...We have become officials and will not conduct investigations and research. I did some research, but most of them were also floating on it and read the report. Now, I want to set up a few points and a few survey bases to go down to make some friends. ...If I don’t look at those forms, I won’t look at the reports, it really doesn’t taste like that. Henan requires the following to report the situation of six types of cadres, and today's notice will be required tomorrow, which can only be a false report. We need to learn lessons. There is one thing that can be done with reports. The statistical department needs reports for statistics, but we do not rely on reports to understand the situation, nor can we rely on reports at each level. We must personally understand the situation at the grassroots level. ”
——Speech at the work conference of the South Third District (Central and Southwest Bureau, East China Bureau ) (March 13, 1961)
[Included in the eighth volume of "Mao Zedong's Works", the title is " to do a systematic investigation and research from history to current situation "]
to let the masses speak, even if they scold themselves
"Where is the reason why Marxists and Leninists are afraid of the masses? ...We must truly open up the problem and let the masses speak, even if they scold themselves, we must let others talk.The result of the scolding is nothing more than the collapse of oneself and the inability to do this work. If you are transferred to a lower-level agency to do work, or transfer it to another place to do work, then what's wrong? Why can a person only rise but not fall? Why can you only do work in this place and not transfer it to another place? I think this decline and mobilization, whether correct or not, is beneficial, can train the will to revolution, investigate and study many new situations, and increase useful knowledge. "
—" Speech by at the Expanded Central Work Conference " (January 30, 1962)
[Collected Works of Mao Zedong" Volume 8]
Personal arbitrary is the "overlord"
" The leadership of the Party Committee is a collective leader, not the first secretary's personal arbitrary. ...I heard that there are some provincial party committees, prefectural party committees, and county party committees now. There is such a situation: everything is counted if the first secretary says it alone. This is very wrong. Who can tell the truth that if you say it, it’s counted? ...As long as it is a big event, it must be discussed collectively, listen carefully to different opinions, and carefully analyze complex situations and different opinions. ...If this is not the case, it is just one person who dominates. Such a first secretary should be called a tyrant, not a democratic centralism "squad leader". Some of our first secretaries are even worse than the Liu Bang in the feudal era, but they are a bit like Xiang Yu . If these comrades do not change, they will eventually collapse. Isn’t there a play called “Farewell My Concubine”? If these comrades always keep changing, they will inevitably have to "farewell My Concubine" one day. Why do I say so well? I want to speak more sarcastically and hurt some comrades, so that these comrades can think about it carefully, and it is best not to sleep for two days. If they can sleep, I will be unhappy because they have not been poked and hurt. "
—"Speech at the Expanded Central Work Conference" (January 30, 1962)
[Collected Works of Mao Zedong" Volume 8]
The secretary of the provincial party committee, please avoid
"Some of us comrades cannot listen to the opposite opinions and cannot criticize them. This is very wrong. During our meeting, there was a province that was originally lively and lively. When the provincial party secretary sat there, he was silent and everyone stopped talking. Comrade, this provincial party secretary, what are you doing where you sit? Why don’t you sit in your house and think about the problem and let others discuss it? If you have become a trend of literacy and dare not speak in front of you, then you should avoid it. If you make a mistake, you must criticize yourself, let others speak and make people criticize. ”
——"Speech at the Expanded Central Work Conference" (January 30, 1962)
(Collected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume 8)
The tiger's butt is about to touch
" Any mistakes made by the central government are directly responsible, and I also have a share indirectly because I am the Chairman of the Central Committee. I am not asking others to shirk responsibility, but some other comrades also have responsibilities, but the first person to be responsible should be me. Since our provincial party secretary, prefectural party secretary, county party secretary, district party secretary, enterprise party secretary, commune party secretary, since we have become the first secretary, we must take responsibility for shortcomings and mistakes in our work. Implications, fear of being responsible, not allowed to speak, and tigers cannot touch their butts. Ten of those who adopt this attitude will fail. People always want to say, are you really unable to touch your tiger's butt? Touch! "
——"Speech at the Expanded Central Work Conference" (January 30, 1962)
["Collected Works of Mao Zedong" Volume 8]
Don't train people at any time
" I am old, I have a lot of salary, I live in a house, I have a car when I go out, and I have a big airline. The first four are OK, you can be a high-ranking official, you can have a higher salary, you can live in a better house, and you can take a car, but there is one thing, don’t put on bureaucratic airs.I only ask you to put down the bureaucratic arrogance and treat people equally with the people, workers, farmers, students, soldiers, and subordinates. Don’t train people at any time. It makes sense why you need to train people? It can be explained. Some officials are not big, such as branch secretary, whose housing is not very good, they don’t have a car when they go out, and their salary is not much. They just put on bureaucratic auras and curse people at any time. This won't work. The people don't agree and they will criticize you..."
—A conversation when meeting with the government delegation of the Congo (Brazza)
["Chronology of Mao Zedong (1949-1976)" Volume 6 October 3, 1967]
