On the Struggle Against the «Three Evils»

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of On the Struggle Against the «Three Evils» has been translated, prepared, and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following edition: On the Struggle Against the «Three Evils» and the «Five Evils», in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, First English Edition, Vol. 5, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1977.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

This is a telegram to the East China Bureau, the Fujian Provincial Committee, other bureaus of the Central Committee, the greater military areas, and others drafted by Comrade Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the 8th of December, 1951. It was first published in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Vol. 5, in 1977.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#ON THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE «THREE EVILS»

#TELEGRAM FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA TO THE EAST CHINA BUREAU, THE FUJIAN PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE, OTHER BUREAUS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, THE GREATER MILITARY AREAS, AND OTHERS

#Mao Zedong

#8th of December, 1951

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The struggle against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy should be stressed as much as the struggle to suppress counter-revolutionaries. As in the latter, the broad masses, including the democratic political parties and also people in all walks of life, should be mobilized, the present struggle should be given wide publicity, the directors should take personal charge and pitch in, and people should be called on to make a clean breast of their own wrongdoing and to report on the guilt of others. In minor cases, the guilty should be criticized and educated; in major ones, the guilty should be dismissed from office, punished, or sentenced to prison terms (to be reformed through labour), and the worst among them should be shot. The problem can only be solved in these ways.