Abstract:At present, our party's definition of "political discipline" mainly includes three major components: the discipline of political line, the discipline of political work and the discipline of political life. Each of these three parts has its complicated historical development. When "political discipline" first appeared, it mainly referred to the discipline of maintaining the political line. In 1927, in the name of "political discipline", Qu Qiubai fought against the words and deeds of Peng Shuzhi and others who violated the party's political line. Subsequently, the discipline of political work became another important meaning of "political discipline." During the period of the democratic revolution, with the development of military struggle, military political discipline became an important part of the discipline of political work. Since the reform and opening up, the CPC Central Committee put fprward the discipline of political life, promulgated the "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party", and proposed that the party's organizational discipline be also "political discipline" and make maintaining the authority of the central government an important part of "political discipline ", and the political discipline of the military has gradually moved closer to this. On the basis of maintaining the discipline of the party's political line and maintaining the authority of the central party committee, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further enriched and developed the connotation of "political discipline". The focus of the concept gradually tilted toward the political life within the party, and attached more importance to the political, epochal, principled, and combatant nature of the party’s political life, and highlighted the new connotation of "political discipline" in the new era.
周家彬, 吴祖鲲. “政治纪律”:一个概念史的梳理[J]. 《深圳大学学报》(人文社科版), 2018, 35(4): 80-87.
ZHOU Jia-bin, WU Zu-kun. “Political Discipline”: A review of the History of Concepts. , 2018, 35(4): 80-87.