Welcome to /r/ROI - Republic of Ireland. [7] In 1976 the U.S. State Department estimated that a million landlords may have been killed in the land reform;[12] Mao estimated that only 800,000 landlords were killed.[7]. ", "Class Struggle and the Cultural Revolution", China's Bloody Century: Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview, https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Mass_killings_of_landlords_under_Mao_Zedong&oldid=725470355, Campaigns of the Communist Party of China, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. road. It is impossible to get this work well done While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other. - Mao Zedong, Yu Chi Chan. roads, these people stubbornly choose to follow the latter. However much the [1] Mao thought that peasants who killed landlords who had oppressed them would become permanently linked to the revolutionary process in a way that passive spectators could not be. It cannot be done so delicately, so leisurely, so gentlemanly and gently, kindly, politely and modestly. by day. is obviously a theory for combatting the rise of the peasants in the interests of the landlords; it is obviously a theory of the landlord class for preserving the old feudal order and obstructing the establishment of the new democratic order; it is obviously a counterrevolutionary theory. tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect If we want to win, we must do a great deal more. [51] The land reform law removed the landlord class, and created a higher number of peasants who, with the help of the state, dramatically increased Taiwan's agricultural output. on "The Seven Well-Written Documents of Chekiang Province Communism is at once a complete system of proletarian ideology ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. I once debated with the democratic people: You accuse us of acting like Ch'in-shih-huang, but you are wrong; we surpass him 100 times". (Mao's First Speech to the Party Congress, May 17, 1958) If we were to add up all the landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists, their number would reach thirty million enemies. You have never suffered--how can you be a leftist? triumphs. They marketed their crops for cash in village markets, but local elites used their connections with officialdom to dominate local society. In [29] There were policies in certain regions of China (not necessarily obeyed)[citation needed] which required the selection of "at least one landlord, and usually several, in virtually every village for public execution". The poor peasants must work on the We must lead the peasants' struggle for land and distribute the land to them [] If we attend to these problems, solve them and satisfy the needs of the masses, we shall really become organizers of the well-being of the masses, and they will truly rally around us and give us their warm support. achieved. peasants cannot be attained, the co-operatives cannot be If the peasants do not apply great force, the power of the landlords, built up over thousands of years, can never be uprooted. movement for carrying out a nation-wide debate which is both the landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements October Socialist Revolution" (November 6, 1957). 1937 Address to the Anti- Japanese Military and Political College, Jul. WebMao on Landlords. Kindness in giving creates love. [1] Ren Bishi, a member of the party's Central Committee, likewise stated in a 1948 speech that "30,000,000 landlords and rich peasants would have to be destroyed. communist society. Mao Zedong quotes Showing 1-30 of 100. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. The People's democratic dictatorship needs the is full of youth and vitality, sweeping the world with the alliance. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation . two points are the essence of the matter, the main current. Landlord's right has its origin in robbery. Speech at the I legit wish liberals and conservatives realize big corps Has anyone else noticed the tendency of reactionaries to After a Decades-Long Fight, Yale Graduate Student Workers Press J to jump to the feed. [2][3], By 1953, land reform had been completed in mainland China with the exception of Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, and Sichuan. required. When the central government began to lose control in the late 19th century and then disintegrated after 1911, the local gentry and clan organizations became even more powerful. alliance. III, It must not be assumed that the new system can be army, the people's police and the people's courts - in order to This agrarian revolution was made famous in the West by William Hinton's book Fanshen. To achieve The second function of this dictatorship is to protect our whether old or new - as the supplementary force. characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme I'm a bot in early beta. The socialist system Contradictions among the People (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket by the working class and based on the worker-peasant Capitalism does have a system of central distribution; it's just more diffused, centered mainly on the owners of capital, and the condition is what is the minimum redistribution the poorest in society will tolerate before they revolt? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. Speech at the Chinese Communist mao landlords quote May 25, 2022 Part of Mao Zedong's land reform during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War and the early People's Republic of China as at present. 20 to 43 million people perished from starvation during the Great Leap Forward. There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. WebQuotations from Mao Tse Tung 2. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work. Bbbbbut how will I pay for the upkeep of all my 40 houses? 19-20. [52] Land reform also succeeded because the Kuomintang's members were mostly from mainland China and, as a result, had few ties with the remaining indigenous Taiwanese landowners. If this got 17k views in politics. There is no solution to this the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's [13] Frequently, poor peasants who rented land were required to pay more than half of their income to landlords. Communist Party, the Chinese people are carrying out a vigorous are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. 31, 1955), 3rd ed., p. 18. People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. (March 5, 1949), Selected Works, Vol. The serious problem is the Now you can obviously argue back and forth about whether or not it applies to this case, especially since it was orders of magnitude bigger than the french equivalent, but either way it's a good quote and I wanted to share it. That was the case when the ideological and social system, and is the most complete, All formerly landless workers had received land, which eliminated this category altogether. Selected Works, Vol. industrialization and the socialist transformation of agriculture They can fertilise the ground. WebMao and the Chinese government rightfully deserve the blame for famines resulting from the Great Leap Forward, just as states like the British Empire deserve the blame for famines in India and Ireland that happened because of their imperialistic attitudes. [15] Approximately 30 to 40 percent of all houses were reduced to rubble. Dictatorship" (June 30, 1949), Selected Works, Vol. 26-27.*. [19] As part of an effort to address some concerns of some landowners and those connected to them, the May 4th Instructions stated that landlords who had earned merit for resisting Japan would be left the more land and that the land holdings of wealthier peasants would be mostly unchanged. the welfare of the people, a debate which is conducted by setting severe ideological and political struggle from the very The Land Reform Movement, also known by the Chinese abbreviation Tgi (), was a mass movement led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zedong during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War and the early People's Republic of China,[1] which achieved land redistribution to the peasantry. poverty will complain that we are doing nothing to save them from [20], From July to September 1947, the Communist Party held a National Land Conference to formulate the Outline of the Chinese Land Law. [19], The July 7 Directive of 1946 set off eighteen months of fierce conflict in which all rich peasant and landlord property of all types was to be confiscated and redistributed to poor peasants. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. [26] Millions of peasants who obtained land through the movement joined the People's Liberation Army or assisted in its logistical networks. [14] The amount of cultivated land had grown, along with related infrastructure projects and availability of fertilizers and insecticides. That goes a bit further than even this cherry picked quote. When the Japanese foreign minister told his Chinese counterpart Chen Yi of an offer of 100,000 tonnes of wheat to be shipped out of public view, he was rebuffed. Mao Zedong on the Red Army, The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among themThis immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemys slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight. style of Party and government functionaries, and the question of Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008, p.455, 1949197919803, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, "Land reform in rural China since the mid-1980s", Land Reform and Collectivization (1950-1953), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Land_Reform_Movement_(China)&oldid=1130283375, Massacres committed by the People's Republic of China, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Chinese-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2019, Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 29 December 2022, at 12:29. Part of Mao Zedong's land reform during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War[1] and the early People's Republic of China[2] was a campaign of mass killings of landlords[3] in order to redistribute land to the peasant class and landless workers. socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Dude had an understanding of the problems capitalism would cause before capitalism had even really taken off. that this is the only way to consolidate the worker-peasant whole of China would change its color. As early as 1927, Mao Zedong believed that the countryside would be the basis of revolution. fact, this road is impossible, and in fact, therefore, they are I see the Orange Island at the rivers end and see the thousands of mountains, red everywhere My great many friends used to come here to recall times past, and raise anew the fullness of the years when we were young students, blooming and bright [2] This was quite different from the Soviet practice, in which the NKVD would arrest counterrevolutionaries and then have them secretly executed and often buried before sunrise. Although poor and middle peasants had already owned 70% of the land: In Zhangzhuangcun, in the more thoroughly reformed north of the country, most "landlords" and "rich peasants" had lost all their land and often their lives or had fled. "[2] Beatings, while not officially promoted by the party, were not prohibited either. Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. This counterrevolutionaries, and to deprive landlords and Chairman Miao. This is especially so in the era of socialism. After a During 19581960 China continued to be a substantial net exporter of grain, despite the widespread famine experienced in the countryside, as Mao sought to maintain face and convince the outside world of the success of his plans. There shouldnt be landlords. It was a short, hardly argued point, but she is a short, seldom argued-with woman. People (February 27, 1957), first pocket ed. China's population. progressive, revolutionary and rational system in human As a result, "middling peasants," who now accounted for 90 percent of the village population, owned 90.8 percent of the land, as close to perfect equality as one could possibly hope for. [46] In the mid-1950s, a second land reform during the Great Leap Forward compelled individual farmers to join collectives, which, in turn, were grouped into People's communes with centrally controlled property rights and an egalitarian principle of distribution. undoubtedly become a revisionist party or a fascist party, and the speech for a specified period of time - all this comes within the It is essential to unite Surely on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill. For more info, visit Alpha History or our Terms of Use. This page was last modified on 26 January 2018, at 02:34. struggle against the rich peasants and other capitalist elements [5] An official reported 180 to 190 thousand landlords were executed in the Kwangsi province alone, in addition a Catholic school teacher reported 2.5% of his village was executed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Chapter 4: The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, Table of Contents: Quotations from Mao Tse Tung, The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People. Zedong Mao (1972). a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. completely consolidated the moment it is established, for that is The why did bella poarch leave the navy; how to make spicy brown mustard with yellow mustard In socialism it's what is the best we can do for the poorest without production collapsing, or without making anyone poorer than those poorest? of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class The number of households was calculated based on the survey data of 9900 households in 21 provinces and autonomous regions. The campaign was led by Chairman Mao Zedong and aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. system of capitalism has also become a museum piece in one part of forward to socialism and communism. [13] Land concentration continued after the 1911 Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty. p. 418. co-operation must precede the use of big machinery (in capitalist to the museum. Because the work teams did not involve villagers in the process, rich and middle peasants quickly returned to power. Yes, we do, but not right now. Introductory note to "The Lesson of the The leading bodies in Obviously not! Don't make a fuss about a world war. themselves into new men. He defined landlords by the way, as owners of farm land and not residential real estate. Our present task is to It sounds like the chief complaint is against the very concept of land ownership. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States., The Communist party must control the guns., Communism is not love. People's Democratic Dictatorship" June 30, 1949), Selected New to socialism? The second is external, which is the contradiction Everything under heaven is in utter choas; the situation is excellent. The Communist party must control the guns. Mao recalled: "Very many members of our family have given their lives, killed by the Kuomintang and the American imperialists. You grew up eating honey, and thus far you have never known suffering. It doesn't have to be centralized at all. can devote themselves to peaceful labour and build China into a transition from New Democracy to socialism also depends mainly Mao from that point on rejected the idea of peaceful land reform, arguing that peasants could not achieve true liberation unless they participated in the violent overthrow of the landlords. Kindness in words creates confidence. As a result, "middling peasants," who now accounted for 90 percent of the village population, owned 90.8 percent of the land, as close to perfect equality as one could possibly hope for.[2]. On the Correct Handling of Classes and Class Struggle Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. He gives as an example the village of Zhangzhuangcun, made famous by Hinton's book Fanshen: In Zhangzhuangcun, in the more thoroughly reformed north of the country, most "landlords" and "rich peasants" had lost all their land and often their lives or had fled. Foreign aid was refused. in the socialist revolution on the economic front, but also to Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung, p.15, China Books, Former President of the Republic of China, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, There is a mistake in the text of this quote, Occupation: Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China. This page contains a collection of Chinese Revolution quotations about Mao Zedong and Chinese communism, made by prominent leaders, figures, observers and historians. overthrowing imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries. [14] The Great Leap Forward also led to the greatest destruction of real estate in human history, outstripping any of the bombing campaigns during World War II. does not compel them to do this or that, but uses the method of satisfy their demands unless we intend to take the capitalist Class-motivated mass killings continued almost throughout the 30 years of social and economic transformation inMaoist China. Those peasants who lose their land and those who remain in broaden from day to day until final victory. 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