The 3 Antis Campaign was expanded to 'the five anti-movement' in 1952, with was intended to stimulate the economy by attacking:
industrial sabotage
tax evasion
bribery
fraud
theft of government property
Mao defined the main aim of the anti-movements was to destroy the 'bureaucratic capitalist class'. In 1952, Mao justified his tough line in a broadcast: "We definitely have no benevolent policies towards the reactionaries or the counter-revolutionary activities of the reactionary classes. Our benevolent policy does not apply to such deed or such persons, who are outside the ranks of the people;it applies only to the people."
HOW THE 5 ANTIS ALLOWED MAO TO CONSOLIDATE HIS POWER The five antis-movement allowed Mao the excuse to enforce a violent line of conformity which allowed him to consolidate his power. To maintain its control with the excuse of strengthening the five-antis to stimulate the economy, local party officials created a system in which
neighbors spied on neighbors
workers snooped on their mates
children reported on their parents
community associations, set with declared aim of providing mutual help, became a major means of exerting control and conformity.
These developments allowed Mao to forcibly polticise the nation: the people who were ignorant and who feared. Individuals who declined to become involved were immediately labelled as class enemies.Therefore, people who were once against the regime were fearful of the attack as being labelled as class enemies. People who were once ignorant were educated to classify the people that were not involved and against the regime as "enemies" of the state. a
- industrial sabotage
- tax evasion
- bribery
- fraud
- theft of government property
Mao defined the main aim of the anti-movements was to destroy the 'bureaucratic capitalist class'. In 1952, Mao justified his tough line in a broadcast:"We definitely have no benevolent policies towards the reactionaries or the counter-revolutionary activities of the reactionary classes. Our benevolent policy does not apply to such deed or such persons, who are outside the ranks of the people;it applies only to the people."
HOW THE 5 ANTIS ALLOWED MAO TO CONSOLIDATE HIS POWER
The five antis-movement allowed Mao the excuse to enforce a violent line of conformity which allowed him to consolidate his power. To maintain its control with the excuse of strengthening the five-antis to stimulate the economy, local party officials created a system in which
- neighbors spied on neighbors
- workers snooped on their mates
- children reported on their parents
- community associations, set with declared aim of providing mutual help, became a major means of exerting control and conformity.
These developments allowed Mao to forcibly polticise the nation: the people who were ignorant and who feared. Individuals who declined to become involved were immediately labelled as class enemies.Therefore, people who were once against the regime were fearful of the attack as being labelled as class enemies. People who were once ignorant were educated to classify the people that were not involved and against the regime as "enemies" of the state. a