The Reactionary Bloodline Theory and Boarding Schools for Cadre Children

Abstract

Like the "Ten Great Crimes of the August 1st School" in the translation immediately preceding, "The Reactionary Bloodline Theory and Boarding Schools for Cadre Children" attacks the organizational foundations of the "privileged classes" in contemporary Chinese society. School regulations were allegedly invoked to restrict the study and application of the thought of Mao Tse-tung. No time was allocated for political study so that "revolutionary" students were forced to utilize Sundays and rest periods for political activities. Students complained that the school failed to meet the demand for productive labor in the countryside. Like the previous selection, conceptions of special privilege, superiority by birth and intellectual achievement, and stress on ascribed "redness" were the consequence of this organizational system.