From Revolutionary to Semi-Bureaucrat: The 'Regularisation' of Cadres.

摘要

This is an article taken from a longer study, Canton under Communism which is one of a series of studies under the general contract title: Military Implications of Change - Communist China. It points out that in pre-Communist China, the cadre was a leader who arose from the peasant or worker class during the period of the Kuomintang under Sun Yat Sen in the early 1920's. He was a new type of Chinese leader who was ascetic, fearless, and a disciplined fighter-ideologue. A comparison is then made with the converted cadres after the Communist revolution. They were now compelled to change from revolutionaries to salaried employees in a government bureaucracy. Expediency made it necessary to compromise between enthusiasm and ideological conformity on the one hand, and technical skills and proficiency on the other. In general, technical competence has been subordinated to support of over all objectives in the promotion of members of the bureaucracy. (Author)