Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:18:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: UNITE! Info #44en: 3/5 CPC 10th Congress 1973, II.


UNITE! Info #44en: 3/5 CPC 10th Congress 1973, II.
[Posted: 21.07.97]

[Continued from part 2/5]



       R E P O R T   O N   T H E   R E V I S I O N   O F

          T H E   P A R T Y   C O N S T I T U T I O N  

  (Delivered at the Tenth National Congress of the Communist 
  Party of China on August 24 and adopted on August 28, 1973)


                        WANG HUNG-WEN


Comrades!

As entrusted by the Central Committee of the Party, I will now
give a brief explanation of the revision of our Party's Consti-
tution.

In accordance with the instructions of Chairman Mao and the Par-
ty's Central Committee concerning the revision of the Party Con-
stitution, a working conference of the Central Committee which
was convened last May discussed the question of revising the
Party Constitution adopted at the Ninth National Congress. 

After that conference, the Party committees of the provinces, 
the municipalities directly under the central authority, and the
autonomous regions, the Party committees of the greater military
commands and the Party organizations directly under the Central
Committee all set up groups for the revision of the Party Con-
stitution, extensively consulted the masses inside and outside
the Party and formally submitted 41 drafts to the Central Com-
mittee.

At the same time, the masses inside and outside the Party in va-
rious places directly mailed in many suggestions for revision.
The draft of the revised Constitution now submitted to the con-
gress for discussion was drawn up according to Chairman Mao's
specific proposals for the revision and on the basis of serious
study of all the drafts and suggestions sent in.

In the discussion on the revision, all Party comrades were of 
the view that since the Party's Ninth National Congress, the
whole Party, Army and people, guided by the line of that con-
gress, which was formulated under the personal direction of 
Chairman Mao, have done the work of struggle-criticism-transfor-
mation in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in a deep-
going way, smashed the Lin Piao anti-Party clique and won great
victories in all aspects of the domestic and international 
strugggles.

Practice over the past four years and more has fully proved that
both the political line and the organizational line of the Ninth
Congress are correct. The Party Constitution adopted by the
Ninth Congress upholds our Party's consistent and fundamental
principles, reflects the new experience of the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution and has played a positive part in the poli-
tical life of our whole Party, Army and people.

The stipulations in the Party Constitution adopted by the Ninth
Congress regarding the nature, guiding ideology, basic programme
and basic line of our Party have been retained in the general
programme of the present draft. Some adjustments have been made 
in the structure and content. There are not many changes in the 
articles. The number of words has been slightly reduced. 

The paragraph concerning Lin Piao in the general programme of 
the Party Constitution adopted by he Ninth Congress was comple-
tely deleted. This was the unanimous wish of the whole Party,
Army and people. It was also the inevitable result of Lin Piao's
betrayal of the Party and the country and his own final rejec-
tion of the Party and people.

Compared with the Party Constitution adopted by the Ninth Con-
gress, the present draft is mainly characterized by its richer
content with regard to the experience of the struggle between
the two lines. This was a common feature of all the drafts sent 
in. Under the leadership of Chairman Mao, our Party has been
victorious in the ten major struggles between the two lines and
accumulated rich experience of defeating Right and "Left" oppor-
tunist lines, which is most valuable to the whole party.

Chairman Mao says, *"To lead the revolution to victory, a poli-
tical party must depend on the correctness of its own political
line and the solidity of its own organization."* All the com-
rades of our Party must pay close attention to the question of
line, persist in continuing the revolution under the dictator-
ship of the proletariat, strengthen our Party building and en-
sure that the Party's basic line for the historical period of
socialism is carried through.

What has been added in the draft in this respect?

One. Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is a great political revo-
lution carried out under the conditions of socialism by the pro-
letariat against the bourgeoisie and all other exploiting clas-
ses, and it is also a deep-going Party consolidation movement.

During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution the whole 
Party, Army and people, under the leadership of Chairman Mao,
have smashed the two bourgeois headquarters, the one headed by
Liu Shao-chi and the other by Lin Piao, thus striking a blow at
all domestic and international reactionary forces.

*The current Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is absolutely
necessary and most timely for consolidating the dictatorship of
the proletariat, preventing capitalist restoration and building
socialism.*

The draft fully affirms the great victories and the tremendous
significance of this revolution and has the following statement
explicitly written into it: "Revolutions like this will have to
be carried out many times in the future,"

Historical experience tells us that not only will the struggle
between the two classes and the two roads in society at home in-
evitably find expression in our Party, but imperialism and so-
cial-imperialism abroad will inevitably recruit agents from
within our Party in order to carry out aggression and subversion
against us.

In 1966 when the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was just
rising, Chairman Mao already pointed out: *"Great disorder 
across the land leads to great order. And so again every seven
or eight years. Monsters and demons will jump out themselves.
Determined by their class nature, they are bound to jump out."*

The living reality of class struggle has confirmed and will con-
tinue to confirm this objective law as reflected by Chairman
Mao. We must heighten our vigilance and understand the protrac-
tedness and complexity of this struggle. In order to constantly
consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat and seize new
victories for the socialist cause, it is necessary to deepen the
socialist revolution in the ideologial political and economic
spheres, to transform all those parts of the superstructure that
do not conform to the social economic base and carry out many
great political revloutions such as the Great Proletarian Cultu-
ral Revolution.

[Continued in part 4/5]



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