At present we are in the midst of an upsurge of the socialist revolution and socialist construction . A decisive victory has been won in the socialist transformation of our country ’ s agriculture , handicrafts and capitalist industry and commerce . Important achievements have also been attained in our socialist industrialisation . All this has led to basic changes in the relations of production in the cities and the countryside and in the political situation of our country . These are the results of active efforts made , in the past six years , in all fronts by the people of all nationalities throughout our country . These results are also inseparable from the role played by the people ’ s democratic united front headed by the Communist Party .
Our country ’ s people ’ s democratic front has played its part in rousing and rallying together the people of the whole country to fulfil the tasks of the country ’ s transition period and struggle against enemies within and without the country . It would be hard to imagine achievements as quick and great as those we attained today in the work of socialist transformation , especially the transformation of capitalist industry and commerce , without a correct united front policy and in the main correct implementation of this policy which has united and mobilised all active forces and overcome passive factors .
In the past six years or so , following on the changes in the class relationships within the country , and especially the basic changes in urban and rural relations of production after the
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This article was written by LI WEI-HAN Published in ‘ New Age ’, August-1956 . We reproduce it for study .
coming of the upsurge in the socialist revolution , basic changes have likewise occurred in the political physiognomy of the people ’ s democratic united front and in its international relations . Firstly , the foundation of the people ’ s democratic dictatorship — the worker-peasant alliance — has advanced to a new basis , that is , the socialist basis and it is now an unbreakable alliance . Secondly , basic changes have occurred in the makeup of intellectuals . The overwhelming majority become a part of the working class as far as social status is concerned and they are also going over day by day to a working class political position . Thirdly , a great majority of capitalists
This article deals with policies of united front i . e . people ’ s democratic front and stage of socialist construction , socialist transformation in china .
and their agents are beginning to become public service personnel of joint state-private enterprises and in some cases state-owned enterprises . Their relations with workers and staff members are changing from the labour-capital antagonism of the capitalist system to working together under the socialist system . Fourthly , our national minorities , in their various different circumstances , are all making progress . The majority of these national minorities have , one after another , taken the road of transition to socialism . Fifthly , the various democratic parties have accepted socialism and adopted political lines in the service of socialism . These changes reflect the expansion and strengthening of socialist unanimity , both political and ideological , among our whole people ’ s democratic united front .
These changes have , moreover , created favourable conditions for the continued consolidation and expansion of the people ’ s democratic united front .
Class contradictions and class struggle still exist within the people ’ s democratic united front . This is first of all because socialist transformation has not yet been completed , the capitalist system has not yet been eliminated as a class . Furthermore , the various political and ideological differentiations and changes in the ranks of intellectuals , their selfeducation and self-reform , are also a sort of reflection of class contradictions and class struggle . The class contradictions and class struggle within the people ’ s democratic united front will continue to make themselves manifest in the political , economic , cultural and ideological spheres .
At the same time , the overwhelming majority of intellectuals have already become government functionaries , and most bourgeois elements are beginning to become public service personnel in joint state-private and state enterprises : this means that henceforth class contradictions and class struggle will be reflected in an increasing degree in the work and academic research of government offices , schools and enterprises , and will be expressed in different positions , viewpoints and methods of observing and handling matters , different ways of thinking and styles of work . That is to say , the forms in which class contradictions and class struggle are expressed within the people ’ s democratic united front have likewise undergone
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