Anti-bourgeois liberalization
[1][2][3] At the end of 1986, the outbreak of the 1986 Chinese student demonstrations forced the reformist General Secretary of the CCP, Hu Yaobang, to resign in early 1987.
[2][4][5][6] However, the move was later opposed by Zhao Ziyang, acting general secretary of the CCP Central Committee and then Premier of the State Council of China.
In October of the same year, Deng Xiaoping said that "the erroneous views of the "left" in ideological and theoretical aspects still need to continue to be criticized and corrected.
"[9] On May 20, 1985, Deng Xiaoping said when meeting with Taiwanese Professor Chen Guying: "Our mainland adheres to socialism and does not take the evil path of capitalism.
In September of the same year, the "Central Political System Reform Research Group" was established, with members including Zhao Ziyang, Hu Qili, Tian Jiyun, Bo Yibo, and Peng Chong.
When combined, it has an impact on our four socialist modernizations that cannot be ignored.In December 1986, the 1986 Chinese student demonstrations broke out across mainland China, raising opinions on issues such as school management, reforming the country's political system, and chanting slogans such as "want democracy.
On December 30, Deng Xiaoping notified Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang, Wan Li, Hu Qili, Li Peng, He Dongcheng, and others to come to his home for talks and asserted:[1]If students cause trouble, it won't cause any severe problems, but judging from the nature of the problem, it is a painful incident.
It results from the lack of a clear-cut stand and resolute attitude in opposing the ideological trend of bourgeois liberalization in the past few years.
It should be said that from the central to the local governments, they are weak on the ideological and theoretical front, have lost their ground, and have a laissez-faire attitude toward bourgeois liberalization.
Among the people in Shanghai, there is a rumor that the central government has a protective layer, and there are two opinions on whether to adhere to the four basic principles and oppose liberalization.
"[25] January 28 On the same day, the Central Committee of the CCP issued the "Notice on Several Issues Concerning the Current Opposition to Bourgeois Liberalization", stating that "the core of pursuing bourgeois liberalization is to negate the socialist system and advocate the capitalist system, which is to deny the leadership of the Communist Party.
He emphasized that this atmosphere was highly inconsistent with the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party held in the second half of 1987.
[5][6] On May 13, 1987, the "Propaganda, Theory, News, and Party School Cadres Meeting" was held in Huairen Hall, Zhongnanhai.
[28][29] On September 16, 1989, when Deng Xiaoping met with Nobel Prize winner and Chinese-American scholar Tsung-Dao Lee, he said, "The opposite of the Four Persistences is bourgeois liberalization.
"[30] With the revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union leading to the failure of a series of communist regimes, anti-peaceful evolution replaced opposition to bourgeois liberalization as the center of Chinese political life in the 1990s.
