Mission-based Empowerment:the Concept and Practice of Peasants Empowerment of the Communist Party of China during the New Democratic Revolution
The empowerment of peasants during the New Democratic Revolution of the Communist Party of China(CPC)was a mission-based empowerment that combined the empowerment of peasants with the revolutionary mission,and the empowerment and the revolutionary mission could not be reduced to each other.The"empowerment"referred to the CPC's enhancement of the peasants'ideology,knowledge and skills,and organization,while the"revolutionary mission"was the social-revolutionary goal that CPC wanted to achieve.Empowering peasants through empowerment is both an end and a means to achieve the revolu-tionary mission.Mission-based empowerment is determined by the characteristics of the CPC as a mission-oriented party.On the one hand,mission-based empowerment avoided sloganizing and empty-headedness of the revolutionary mission.On the other hand,it avoided depoliticization of empowerment.The study of mission-based empowerment responds to the views of the academic history of the reductionism and the bina-ry antagonism.The experience of peasants'mission-based empowerment during the New Democratic Revo-lution of the CPC has important implications for peasants'mission-based empowerment of China's current rural revitalization.
Mission-based empowermentThe Communist Party of ChinaThe New Democratic Rev-olutionPeasants