Chapter 132 Pay Attention to Correcting "Left" Mistakes in Land Reform [1]

(November 29, 1947) At that time, in places where the land struggle had not yet deepened, there were right-leaning views, and they did not dare to let go and mobilize the masses to go deeper into the land struggle; in places where the land struggle had already deepened, "left" views appeared, and many middle peasants and even poor peasants indiscriminately brought along Landlords, rich peasants, etc. hats, harm the interests of the masses.The above two types of errors must be corrected, but these two documents were mainly issued to correct "Left" errors.At present, when the land struggle is being carried out and deepened in the liberated areas, the convening of the land conference and the promulgation of the outline of the land law have dealt a serious blow to the right-leaning views. This is absolutely necessary.But with the deepening of the struggle, the phenomenon of "Left" deviation is bound to occur.The distribution of this document to various places should never be used as an excuse to hinder the struggle of the masses. Instead, in the resolute struggle of mobilizing the peasant masses to divide the land completely and equally, they should properly correct the excessive left actions that have occurred and have hindered the interests of the masses, so as to facilitate unity. Farmers and poor peasants, resolutely protect the middle peasants (this is an unswerving policy), correctly implement the outline of the land law, and eliminate the feudal and semi-feudal system.

Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] On November 29, 1947, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued instructions to the bureaus and sub-bureaus of the Central Committee, saying: "How to Analyze Classes" and "On the Land Struggle" issued by the Soviet Central Government in 1933 In the two documents "Decisions on Some Issues in China", the policy of not distributing land to landlords and distributing bad land to rich peasants is an erroneous policy of the left, but the regulations on class composition (that is, the main part of the two documents) are basically correct. Yes. The erroneous parts of the two documents and the parts irrelevant to the class analysis are deleted, and will be used as your reference documents after being notified by the Xinhua Headquarters. I hope that you can refer to this document according to the specific conditions of each place and put forward your proposals on class composition analysis. Clearly telegraph the opinions, and then the central government will formulate a unified official document and publish it publicly.” This article is when Mao Zedong revised the central directive draft, in the fourth article, “These two documents were originally written in 1933 to correct the problem of class analysis. A paragraph added after the sentence "formulated by the excessively left viewpoint in the past".Later, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China revised and annotated these two documents again, and issued them as official documents on May 25, 1948, for the application of party committees at all levels in land reform.