4-6-4-2-5 Authorial argument, database judgment, institutional comparison, policy and law, and applications for public communication CHAPTER 5 Political Terror in the Early Years of CCP Rule Killing to Establish Authority, Campaign Purges, Thought Control, and the Stripping of Civil Rights (1949–1966) CORE ARGUMENT OF THIS CHAPTER. This chapter shows that the CCP’s establishment of its regime was not merely a change of rulers but a remaking of society into a political prison through killing to establish authority, class labels, campaign purges, and thought control. The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, the internal purges of counterrevolutionaries, the Three-Anti and Five-Anti Campaigns, thought reform, the Anti-Rightist Campaign (which persecuted roughly 500,000 members of the social elite and implicated millions of workers and peasants), the Socialist Education Movement and the Four Cleanups, household registration (hukou), the work unit, reform through labor, and political vetting all made life, career, movement, speech, and family fortunes uniformly subordinate to the Party organization. This study seeks to restore official terms such as “campaign,” “reform,” and “education” to what they concretely were: executions, detentions, house raids, banishment, unemployment, broken families, and lifelong discrimination. CONCRETE ENTRY POINT. Some, having been urged to “say all they knew and hold nothing back,” were branded rightists the moment they spoke; others were taken away in the dead of night and humiliated at mass rallies, while class labels reached further still — onto their spouses, their children, their jobs, their housing, and their entire lives. SCOPE AND CLASSIFICATION BOUNDARY. This chapter includes only material directly related to “Political Terror in the Early Years of CCP Rule: Killing to Establish Authority, Campaign Purges, Thought Control, and the Stripping of Civil Rights (1949–1966)” — its ideas, institutions, events, implementation, victims, and lines of responsibility. Terms used in the catalog such as “evil, terror, plunder, enslavement, deception, and crime” are openly stated value judgments or characterizations of mechanism; they must be supported by verifiable fact, and every major figure must be recorded with its source, its basis of counting, and its range. Sharpness does not mean lowering the standard; it means refusing to use neutral language to conceal concrete harm　Folder · PG-E

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