Chapter 22 Farmers migrating to cities to work is a remarkable achievement

You are not opposed to peasants entering the city? If the peasants are not allowed to enter the city, they can only live a hard life in the feudal era.How can a small peasant economy with a few mu of land per household get rich?Collectivization in the past has been tested and failed in practice.Since the reform and opening up, the autonomy of farmers has been restored, so farmers have left the land and moved to cities. 200 million farmers have moved to cities to work, and their lives have improved. This is a remarkable achievement.There is a writer who said in his works that it is a tragedy for farmers to go to the city, saying: "The land is the lifeblood of farmers. Now there are hundreds of millions of farmers who leave their hometowns and go to work in cities. What a tragedy it is." It is fundamentally wrong, and it is essentially a reactionary stand on the standpoint of feudal small-scale peasant economy. 200 million migrant workers represent the great direction of history!Deepening the reform is to let more peasants into the cities, and then transform them into urban workers. Isn’t this a great trend of historical development?Is it true that farmers' wishes and interests lie in poverty on their own land for generations?Now turn it around, let the peasants get rich, let the peasants go home, and small producers have a few acres of land for each family. Can this situation make you rich?Small-scale peasant economy and small-scale production cannot get rich. To build a new socialist countryside is to reform the entire mode of agricultural production and replace the traditional small-scale agricultural production with advanced productivity, that is, social large-scale production agriculture with specialized agronomic division of labor and cooperation. Intensive farming as a mode of production.Whoever engages in seeds should open a seed company.Whoever engages in fertilizers should open a fertilizer company, etc.In short, the first thing for the development of China's rural areas is to vigorously develop education, so that farmers can directly become intellectuals and farmers entrepreneurs.The second should be for farmers to go to cities to work, so that farmers can gradually become workers.Of course, the second way also includes the development of agricultural and sideline products processing industry, and farmers themselves become workers.

An expert on agricultural issues explained to me in detail the pre-production, mid-production and post-production aspects of agricultural production. He said that the production of seeds before production, the deep processing of agricultural products after production, the production of "Halik" and puffed food are all profitable and profitable, but they lose money during production.Today's peasants can't do it because they are busy in production. This makes sense.Therefore, now farmers have become workers, some grow herbs, can be processed, raise rabbits, and can engage in textile industry.This is not called eliminating peasants, but the contribution of peasants to China's modernization, which calls for the peaceful demise of peasants as a class.If the Communist Party does not eliminate the small productive peasant class peacefully, there will be no modernization, which cannot be achieved by capitalism.

As early as Mao Zedong said on the platform of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China that the consciousness of small peasants surrounded us like a vast ocean, he later said that the serious problem is to educate the peasants. A village builds a few towers and builds a small Tiananmen Square, thinking it is getting rich.When I am old, I pass on the position of village head to my son. This is a farmer.Such farmers are said to be members of the Communist Party, but they are actually no different from the leaders of peasant uprisings for thousands of years.If it is true, a village branch, I am the old secretary, my nephew is a propaganda committee member, and my cousin is an organization committee member... Is this the true meaning of the Communist Party?Can socialism in the true sense be produced?However, this is the reality in China, which is still in the primary stage of socialism, and the countryside is basically a feudal patriarchal society where families live in groups. The Communist Party can only proceed from this reality.As long as they listen to the Communist Party's words, take the lead in getting rich, drive the farmers around them to live a prosperous life, and keep one side safe, that's fine!But we must be clear-headed, and we must practice socialism.Therefore, if we really want to build socialism, we must first turn farmers into workers, and second, we must turn workers into intellectuals, and further turn "blue-collar workers" into "white-collar workers". This is the law of historical development.Human beings have long been dominated by agriculture.Since modern times, agriculture has gradually given way to industry. First of all, in terms of quality, that is, the control over society, industry has become the dominant force. After the 20th century, agriculture retreated to a secondary position in terms of quantity.For example, in the United States, agriculture now only accounts for 2% of GDP, and the agricultural population has also dropped to 2%.Industry is the leading industry in industrial society.Farmers also became agricultural workers.No farmers does not mean no agriculture.Agriculture still needs to be developed.Agriculture is the primary industry, but the advanced productivity brought about by mechanization and technology has reduced the number of manual agricultural workers.

Likewise, in the large cities there are fewer and fewer workers engaged exclusively in manual labor.Mechanization replaced manual labor.Intellectualization is mainly white-collar workers and intellectuals.Therefore, the Communist Party must modernize, otherwise you will collapse. History is ruthless, and the people will choose again.It is remarkable that the Communist Party can complete the historical mission of China's modernization, and it is remarkable that it can be completed as soon as possible!There are two sections, or classes, in the working class: one section is intellectuals, and the other section is workers.With the process of modernization, the working class is still the leading class, but the internal composition has changed, and the intellectual class has become stronger and stronger. proposed ideal.Of course, there is no worker-peasant alliance anymore.If the Chinese Communist Party can accomplish these two missions in the 21st century, it will be an immortal contribution to the Chinese nation.This is the "Three Represents" and the essence of the "Three Represents."It would be a tragedy if such a simple and clear truth is not understood.Sad and pathetic.

I agree with you. In the past, even if the farmers did not have enough food and clothing to keep warm, we still preached that "the situation is great and getting better", "difficulties are temporary, there are difficulties, there are ways, and there is hope", but nothing major happened; The past is much better, and it is really promising, so what big problems will there be?When peasants enter the city, don’t just look at the fact that they live on the edge of the city. They are poorer than urban workers and intellectuals, but they are already amazing. In the past, the grain grown by the peasants was not enough to eat, and they raised a few chickens to exchange for a little salt. That's why it's hard.Now that he is working in the city, he has already stepped up a big step, becoming a worker, and his life is much better than that in the countryside.If you don't improve, what are you rushing to the city to do?Of course, there are gaps between workers and peasants, between urban and rural areas, and they are quite significant.We need to care about it and solve it step by step, but this is a rather long process.Now some newspapers and periodicals publicize the hardships of peasants, migrant workers, the polarization of the rich and the poor, and the new three mountains, etc., which are a bit too much and lack a scientific attitude.We must know that China's per capita GDP is just over 2,000 US dollars today, and it is impossible to completely eliminate the differences between workers and peasants, between urban and rural areas, and between rich and poor.This is forgetting Mao Zedong's "two musts" and Comrade Jintao's review of "two musts"!In fact, Qi State has nothing to worry about, and there are not so many sharp conflicts.The sky cannot fall, and the earth cannot sink.This is what Mao Zedong said.

It still works. Mao Zedong also has two poems: Regardless of the wind and waves, it is better than strolling in the courtyard. Of course, we now have a gap between the rich and the poor, the gap is relatively large, and there is a trend of widening, and the trend of widening the income distribution gap has not been fundamentally reversed. This is a fact.But the term "polarization" is debatable. The widening gap between rich and poor does not mean "polarization".Since the reform and opening up, the people's life has changed from egalitarianism, common poverty, to common improvement, but some of them have improved more slowly, and some have improved faster. This is the gap on the basis of common improvement!This is historic progress. Why is it the "polarization" promoted by some people? "Polarization" means that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The so-called "absolute poverty" is not the case in China!Our wealth gap is by no means "polarized."There is a qualitative difference between the gap between the rich and the poor on the basis of common improvement and "polarization".The problem lies in how to look at the gap between the rich and the poor, and how to correctly understand the gap between the rich and the poor.The gap between the rich and the poor depends on two types. One is the gap caused by gaining profits through labor, and the gap is the gap between common prosperity, which we agree with.The second gap is an illegal and unreasonable gap, and we are against it.

Is the current gap between rich and poor good?of course not.Because our market economy is not yet perfect, the old system is still functioning, including the idea of ​​"equalizing the rich and the poor" as a small-scale peasant economy, and there is a wide market.Various factors are intertwined, resulting in many unfair and unreasonable gaps between the rich and the poor. I think there are four main types: The first is corruption.Corruption has created a group of corrupt officials who got rich quickly, and also created some unscrupulous entrepreneurs who got rich.How is corruption formed?The main reason is system corruption, because enterprises have entered the market economy, while the government still retains many powers from the era of planned economy.Since time is money, if you approve it early, I will make money, and if you approve it later, I will have no chance to make money, and the power to approve one day later or one day earlier is with government officials, and there is a lot of freedom, so power can be exchanged for money. Once power and money are traded, it becomes corrupt.This is called institutional corruption.The government should not be involved in micro-economic activities, but our government has not yet sat where the socialist market economy should be.The gap between rich and poor caused by corruption is of course unreasonable.The second unreasonable gap between the rich and the poor is that the legal system of the market economy is not perfect, so there are many opportunities for "rent-seeking".Some relatives of officials "get rich" by using this method fall into this category.The third is monopoly, which creates a gap between the rich and the poor.Some state-owned enterprises monopolize the market and pay themselves high wages with the huge profits they earn from the resources of the whole people.Is it reasonable to exploit the surplus value of all laborers?Some foreign companies acquire state-owned enterprises and private enterprises to form industry monopoly, which also falls into this category.The fourth type is some "sweatshop" exploitation.For example, according to newspaper reports, in Shenzhen, Dongguan and other places, women workers work more than ten hours a day, which is obviously exploiting workers and obtaining excess profits.The resulting gap is also unreasonable.This gap is also caused by our imperfect legal system.I think these four kinds of gaps are all unreasonable, so it is also these unreasonable gaps that need to be resolved, rather than broadly speaking about the widening gap between the rich and the poor.Exaggerating the gap between the rich and the poor will confuse social thinking and, coupled with sensationalism, will lead to the old path of "equalizing the rich and the poor" and leading to "common poverty".Instead of grabbing eyebrows and beards, it is better to draw a clear line and distinguish right from wrong.Bad things are bad things, and good things are good things.The anti-corruption should be anti-corruption, improve the rule of law, and carry out the reform and opening up of the socialist market economy to the end.If there should be a gap, there is a gap. If there is no gap, how can society have motivation?Mao Zedong said that the gap is the contradiction, and the contradiction is the driving force for the development of things.The biggest advantage of a market economy is that it mobilizes everyone's enthusiasm.Human abilities vary in size, and widening the gap is a natural law in a market economy. If everyone is still egalitarian, then who will do it to realize China's modernization?

The process of Shanghai Pudong's development and opening up is the process of farmers becoming citizens, and the process of changing rural areas into cities.The urbanization of Pudong New Area has gone through hundreds of years of modern history in just 17 years. The development of Pudong in Shanghai is the history of the continuous disappearance of traditional farmers and the great process of rapid urbanization.It is wrong to only say that industry feeds back agriculture, not to turn agriculture into modern advanced productive forces and follow the inevitable path of history.Our task is to completely transform the traditional agriculture of small-scale production into modern agriculture of socialized large-scale production.Although it is still a household contract responsibility system, it is not a family with a few acres of land all farming, but a specialized production with economies of scale formed on the basis of socialized division of labor and cooperation.The first is the specialized production of "big agriculture" for grain, economic crops, poultry and livestock, etc., and the further is the specialized division of labor in agronomy from seeds, fertilization, tillage, irrigation, plant protection to storage.

Many of these specializations can be implemented with regional, transregional, national, or even multinational corporate organizations.On the basis of socialized division of labor, implement socialized cooperation, so that we can continuously absorb modern science and technology to the maximum extent and create huge productivity of modern agriculture.Specialized division of labor and organic collaboration are exactly the "collective economy" in a new sense.At the same time, it is necessary to digest the peasantry and let the peasantry gradually disappear as a class.Peasants are laborers, and the peasant class has made great contributions to the Chinese revolution and construction, so it must not be eliminated by coercion and expropriation like the landlord class.Farmers still make up the majority of China's population, and it is not possible to simply eliminate it.But we must digest the peasant class, which is the historic task of building socialist modern agriculture.The main way of digestion is to let a large number of farmers actively and orderly move to the city, transfer to various industries in the city, or transfer to various specialized production and In the enterprise of the service system.In a word, transform farmers into modern workers.Of course, there is also modern education, vigorously develop rural education, and train farmers into intellectuals.This is a historic strategic shift for farmers.The remaining 5% to 10% or even less of the rural population is specialized in agriculture and has become an integral part of the social division of labor, thus becoming agricultural workers.As a result, the small-scale peasant class completely disappeared, the patriarchal society in the countryside also completely disappeared, the roots of feudalism were dug up, and the problem of the gap between urban and rural areas was naturally finally resolved.