Chapter 112 The Revolutionary Turn and the Party's General Line in the Transition Period[1]

(December 1953) one We say that what marks the change in the nature of the revolution, the basic end of the new-democratic revolutionary stage and the beginning of the socialist revolutionary stage is the change of regime, the demise of the counter-revolutionary regime of the Kuomintang and the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The great task of reforming communism can be carried out in all areas of the country immediately after the founding of the People's Republic.No, at that time, we still have to resolve the contradiction between feudalism and democracy, that is, between landlords and peasants, in the vast countryside.The main contradiction in the countryside at that time was the contradiction between feudalism and democracy, not between capitalism and socialism, so it took two to three years to carry out land reform in the countryside.At that time, while carrying out democratic land reform in the countryside, we immediately proceeded to take over bureaucratic-capitalist enterprises in the cities and transform them into socialist enterprises, to establish a socialist state bank, and at the same time to establish a socialist state bank throughout the country. State-run and co-operative trade, and in the past few years have introduced state-capitalist measures to private capitalist enterprises.All of this paints a complex picture of the first years of transition in our country.

two From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the basic completion of socialist transformation, this is a transitional period.The Party's general line and general task in this transitional period is to gradually realize the country's socialist industrialization and gradually realize the country's socialist transformation of agriculture, handicrafts and capitalist industry and commerce over a fairly long period of time.This general line is the beacon that illuminates all our work. Without it, we will make right or "left" mistakes. three The essence of the Party's general line in the transitional period is to make the socialist ownership of the means of production the sole economic basis of our state and society. [2] The reason why we must do this is that only when the transition from private ownership of the means of production to socialist ownership is completed will it be conducive to the rapid development of social productive forces, a revolution in technology, and an absolute revolution in our country. In most social economies, the use of simple and backward tools and farm tools to work has changed to the use of various machines up to the most advanced machines to work, so as to achieve large-scale production of various industrial and agricultural products to meet the growing needs of the people. To meet the needs of the people, to improve the living standards of the people, to surely strengthen the national defense force, to oppose imperialist aggression, and finally to consolidate the people's power and prevent counter-revolutionary restoration.To accomplish this task, it will take about three five-year plans, or about 15 years (counting from 1953 to 1967, which will be basically completed, plus the three-year period of economic recovery) , it will be 18 years, and four of these 18 years have passed), then China can basically be built into a great socialist country.

According to the "Compilation of Reading Documents for Socialist Education Curriculum" (Part One) published by People's Publishing House in December 1957. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This was added by Mao Zedong when he was reviewing the draft "Struggle to Mobilize All Forces to Build my country into a Great Socialist Country—Outline for the Study and Propaganda of the Party's General Line in the Transition Period" compiled by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Or revised three paragraphs of text.Regarding the general line of the party during the transitional period, Mao Zedong proposed it from the second half of 1952. On June 15, 1953, he made a relatively complete statement at the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In August, he officially wrote it to Zhou Enlai. In the conclusions of the National Financial Work Conference in 1953.The second part of this article is Mao Zedong's final revision of the general line of the transition period.

[2] This sentence was originally submitted for review in the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's "Outline for the Study and Propaganda of the Party's General Line in the Transition Period".