Kritik diri (Rusia: самокритика, samokritika; Tionghoa: 自我批评, zìwǒ pīpíng) adalah adalah sebuah konsep filsafat dan politik yang berkembang dalam ideologi Marxisme–Leninisme, Stalinisme, dan Maoisme.[1] Menurut David Priestland, konsep "kritik dan kritik diri" berkembang dalam periode Stalinis di Uni Soviet sebagai cara untuk secara terbuka menginterogasi para intelektual yang didakwa memegang posisi kontra-revolusioner.[1] Konsep tersebut merupakan komponen besar dari filsafat politik pemimpin Marxis Tiongkok Mao Zedong.
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- ^ a b Priestland, David (2010). ""Men of Steel"". The Red Flag: A History of Communism. Groove Press. ISBN 9780802145123.
Another way of discovering revolutionary commitment can be seen in the academic seminars of Communist universities. Academics were ‘worked over’, or subjected to aggressive questioning in public meetings; if they were discovered to be in error, they had to confess their sins. This was the root of the ‘criticism and self-criticism’ campaigns of the Stalinist period, and influenced the ‘struggle sessions’ used later by the Chinese Communist Party, experienced by the Chinese students of Moscow’s Communist University of the Toilers of the East.37 Such confrontational methods of interrogation also had much in common with the ‘agit-trial’ – a form of theatrical propaganda developed in the Red Army. These mass spectacles in which, for instance, soldiers participated in ‘trials’ of actors playing capitalists and Whites, were to become the basis of the Stalinist show trial.38