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Going perhaps as far back as the Long March there had been resentment against "rightists" inside the CCP. The Anti-Rightist Movement was a reaction against the Hundred Flowers Campaign, which had promoted pluralism of expression and criticism of the government. It is not clear whether the Hundred Flowers Campaign was a deliberate tactic to smoke out "rightists", or whether Mao simply decided that it had gone too far. The first wave of attacks began immediately following the end of the Hundred Flowers movement in July 1957. By the end of the year, 300,000 people had been labelled as rightists, including the writer Ding Ling. Future premier Zhu Rongji, then working in the State Planning Commission, was purged in 1958. Most of the accused were intellectuals. The penalties included informal criticism, "re-education through labour" and in some cases execution. One main target was the independent legal system. Legal professionals were transferred to other jobs; judicial power was exercised instead by political cadres and the police. The second part of the campaign followed the Lushan Meeting of July 2-Aug 16 1959. The meeting condemned General Peng Dehuai, who had criticised the Great Leap Forward. The Anti-rightist campaign ended the hopes which the Hundred Flowers Movement had encouraged: that a China run by the CCP could be a tolerant and diverse one. It also created a lasting distrust of the party among the country's intelligentsia. The movement deprived a generation of these people of the positions of power and in some cases the education which could have helped prevent the excesses of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Category:Mainland China category:History of the People's Republic of China This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anti-Rightist Movement".
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