Chapter 6 Put the attack surface within the scope of the real feudal exploiting class[1]

(January 1948) one Caijiaya in Xing County can be regarded as a place where local landlords and rich peasants are relatively concentrated.There are not as many rural landlords and rich peasants in this county as Caijiaya.However, Cai Jiaya’s experience taught us an important lesson, that is, we must classify classes according to the actual situation and carry out land reform. Disrupt the revolutionary front, help the enemy, isolate yourself.This is an extremely important issue that must be brought to the attention of comrades in the entire Party. two It must be pointed out here that I raised the issue of Caijiaya in Xing County misclassified as a class, just as an example.In other villages in Shanxi and Sui, and in North China, East China, Central China, Northeast China, and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in Northwest China, if there were misidentified class members like Cai Jiaya, or almost like that, it must be quite a few.All leading comrades in the Liberated Areas and all comrades engaged in land reform work must seriously examine this issue of division and openly and clearly correct their own mistakes.Even if it is just a wrong person, it must be corrected.

three China's old-style rich peasants, with a strong feudal nature, often lend usury or lease out part of their land.On the one hand, they labor by themselves and are close to the peasants; on the other hand, they have feudal or semi-feudal exploitation and are close to the landlords. Four In any case, the target should only be targeted within the scope of the real feudal exploiting class, and it is absolutely not allowed to go beyond this scope.In areas where the People's Liberation Army has gone and was originally ruled by the Kuomintang, the area of ​​attack will be even smaller.There, at first, only the big landlords, landlords, tyrants, armed landlords, the Baojia system, and secret agents were attacked, and gradually developed to eliminate the entire feudal system according to the victory of the war and the consolidation of the base areas, and according to the level of consciousness and organization of the masses.

Fives After the land is divided equally, farmers should be called on to work hard, improve agricultural technology, develop mutual aid and cooperation movements, seek to improve the lives of farmers themselves, obtain enough public grain for the democratic government and the People's Liberation Army to help defeat the reactionaries, and obtain the growing local Grain and raw materials for commercial sale, so that urban people and industry can obtain sufficient agricultural products. six Du Bincheng[2] was a member of the Democratic League[3] and a democrat. He was killed by Hu Zongnan[4], but there are still people like Du Bincheng.There are people like this participating in the democratic government, making the democratic government a government jointly formed by representatives of the various revolutionary classes led by the Communist Party, rather than a government run by the Communist Party alone. beneficial.

seven We oppose indiscriminate killing, not to say that no one can be killed.Those big counter-revolutionaries who have committed the most heinous crimes, big bully elements, and people of this kind who can be killed by the people of the country will be sentenced to death by the people's court and passed through certain government agencies (committees organized by governments at the county level or district level or higher) It is absolutely necessary to approve and execute executions by firing squad, and announce the crimes (the crimes must be publicized, and secret killings are not allowed), otherwise the revolutionary order cannot be established.However, it is not possible to arbitrarily add charges and punish people with capital punishment.It should be noted that killing more people will not solve any problems.Our task is to solve the problem of how to eliminate the oppression and exploitation of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, and how to build China into an independent and strong people's democratic republic.In addition to the inevitable killing of many enemies on the front line in war, killing too many or wrong people will not only fail to solve the problem, but may delay the solution of the problem, and may even lead to the temporary defeat of the revolution.This is because killing more people will inevitably lose the sympathy of the people and encounter opposition from many people.

Eight No matter in the countryside, in the cities, in the army, in government agencies and schools, in any meeting to review party members or cadres, the person under review has the right to express his or her reasons. This democratic style is absolutely indispensable. Published and printed according to Mao Zedong's revisions preserved in the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] These are several passages that Mao Zedong revised and added to the speech "Several Issues in the Land Reform" delivered by Ren Bishi to the enlarged meeting of the Frontline Committee of the Northwest Field Army on January 12, 1948.Mao Zedong also wrote a comment at the top of the speech: "The filming will start tomorrow with a clear code, and we will try to finish it in two or three days. Comrade Changjiang, be careful not to mistranslate words or punctuation marks. In addition to publishing in news briefings, we also print pamphlets and send them to the Central Committee.”

[2] Du Bincheng (1888-1947), a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi.He was a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League and the chairman of the Northwest General Branch. He was killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries in Xi'an in October 1947. [3] The Democratic League is the China Democratic League, formerly known as the China Democratic Political Group League, established in 1941 and renamed the China Democratic League in 1944.The members are mainly intellectuals in the field of culture, education, science and technology. [4] Hu Zongnan, then director of the Xi'an Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang Army.