Between Family And Organization:An Analysis Of The Idea Of "Revolutionary Family"

Translated from the Soviet Union into China,the term "revolutionary family" originally meant family and military.In the context of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party,it continues the connotation of both,has the dual attributes of family and organization,and develops two trends of "family organization" and "family organization" in practice.Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party tried to organize families and put forward the idea of building a "big revolutionary family".Based on the new interpretation of the "five Lun",the Kuomintang tried to regulate the interpersonal relationship between the Party organization and the army with the traditional family ethics,and then put forward the theory of "family-oriented" the Party and the army.The Communist Party did not put forward a clear "family" theory,but there is a "revolutionary big family" expression.The two parties’ different cognition and guiding concept of "revolutionary family" lead to their different practices and final results in constructing "revolutionary family".The Kuomintang’s idea of "big revolutionary family" lacks the corresponding material foundation and system construction,and simply guides and standardizes party members with traditional family ethics,which makes the overall interests of Party members inconsistent with those of the Party.In the army,the "big revolutionary family" of the Kuomintang retains too many feudal family relationships,and the construction of "big revolutionary family" can only be a tradition.The Communist Party takes a critical and reformed attitude towards the traditional family ethics,reconstructs the interpersonal relationship between the Party organization and the army with the concept of class fraternity of democracy and equality,establishes the homogenous relationship among the members,and makes the Party organization and the army become a community based on comradely relationship.The military communist system implemented by the CPC in Yan’an and the "revolutionary housework" system established in the mass production movement provided survival resources for the operation of the "big family",and made the interests of the individual and the whole well combined together.Coupled with powerful discourse shaping and organization discipline,the "big family of revolution" was successfully constructed.Family organization is the unique connotation of the concept of "revolutionary family".The ideas and methods of "family-oriented organs" and "institutionalized families" of the Communist Party of China make the family,as a real entity of social relations,become the actual support point of revolutionary work.This experience has gradually spread from within the Party to the masses outside.During the Anti-Japanese War,Yan’an was a revolutionary society,and an organic chain of cadres-cadres’ families/organizationsrevolutionary society was formed within it.At the same time,the Communist Party called on the peasants in the base areas to establish a "new family" with "organized" characteristics.He envisioned reconstructing society with the idea of "revolutionary family" and forming a continuum of "individual-revolutionary family(family/organization)-new society".During the movement,the form of "revolutionary family" once applied in Yan’an caused controversy from all walks of life and encountered difficulties in practice.