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→Anti-Landlordism campaign
These anti-landlord campaigns and murder which [[the left]] deems "liberating the people", actually began in the communist occupied territory of Yan'an during World War II, where the communists were hiding out from the Kuomintang and the Japanese even before the party captured the Chinese state in 1949. Landlords were forced into a [[rectification]] process, making false confessions and apologies, after which they were murdered.<ref>The CCP murderers were he alleged "agrarian reformers" the ''New York Times'' and [[Secretary of State]] [[George Marshall]] spoke of.</ref>
These anti-landlord campaigns and murder which [[the left]] deems "liberating the people", actually began in the communist occupied territory of Yan'an during World War II, where the communists were hiding out from the Kuomintang and the Japanese even before the party captured the Chinese state in 1949. Landlords were forced into a [[rectification]] process, making false confessions and apologies, after which they were murdered.<ref>The CCP murderers were he alleged "agrarian reformers" the ''New York Times'' and [[Secretary of State]] [[George Marshall]] spoke of.</ref>
Prof. R.J. Rummel in ''China’s Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900,''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4FXn22NKptcC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=30,000,000+landlords+and+rich+peasants+would+have+to+be+destroyed&source=bl&ots=qkNjN-QlB-&sig=yPIkj7nKfQqcWI4eVPXz_hW5I2E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_g6P2hdnSAhVIqFQKHdDCA-8Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=30%2C000%2C000%20landlords%20and%20rich%20peasants%20would%20have%20to%20be%20destroyed&f=false China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900], By Rudolph J. Rummel</ref> but he posits that some 4.5 million landlords and relatively well-off peasants died in the land reform campaigns. Mao biographer Philip Short estimates that possibly 1 million landlords and their families were killed, but the death toll “may have been two, possibly three times higher.”
According to China File, “landlords” was merely a convenient label pushed by Mao and the communist party:
{{quotebox-float|"There were no landlords there, just peasants, some of whom were richer than others. The violence that erupted was not spontaneous, but carefully orchestrated. For several weeks, people were whipped up into a frenzy by Party cadres in public rallies, then armed with sticks, hoes, or even guns, and unleashed on those who had a little more education, or a bit more land, or a slightly nicer dwelling.
In this type of mob savagery (think of what happened to Jews in Polish villages under Nazi rule), greed, envy, and personal resentments are useful human instincts for officials to exploit. Since class categories were often so arbitrary, and the instigators of violence usually came from the outside, people were in effect set upon one another, friends upon friends, children upon parents. This was the point of the exercise. Through organized violence, the Party made everyone complicit in the mayhem it stirred up. The aim was to tear apart the fabric of traditional Chinese life, leaving the Party as the only permitted focus of loyalty and authority.<ref>https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/china-reeducation-through-horror</ref>}}
Short said Mao-led peasants “lurched violently to the left.”
====Yan'an rectification movement====
====Yan'an rectification movement====