1951+3-Antis+Campaign

Having tightened its military grip over China in 1951, Mao's government turned its attention to extending its political control. In 1951, Mao renounced the 3-Antis Campaign. The targets of 'the three anti-movement' were The main aim of the anti-movements was to destroy the remnants of what Mao defined as 'the bureaucratic capitalist c;ass'. Mao felt comfortable to turn openly against the classes which he had been obliged to tolerate earlier in order to maintain continuity of administration. This was later expanded in 1952.
 * waste
 * corruption
 * inefficiency

Mao used the Antis as an excuse to use terror tactics on the people. Mao and the CCP began to resort to terror as the basic method of control. At the time of the CCP success in 1949, there had been over ten separate political in China, by 1952 they had all disappeared, destroyed in a set of repressive moves which denied the right of any party to exist other than the CCP. The political purges were accompanied by a series of mass campaigns aimed at extending the CCP's authority over the people of China. Attacks were launched against 'counter-revolutionaries and imperialists', terms that were used to condemn anyone that showed disapproving of the Communist regime. Mao used the 3-Antis to strike up reach out to the people who feared his regime and people who were ignorant. The purging of other party members and attacks on other counter revolutionaries made people fear him. The ignorant simply had to accept Mao's regime as a single party state and eventually have to conform to the CCP in order to conform to the fearful system.
 * HOW MAO USED THE 3-ANTIS TO CONSOLIDATE POWER **