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mote the further development of the village struggle. As to the methods
of partition in connection with the distance, fertility, infertility,
forests, waters, etc., it is now of urgent need to work out a definite
resolution out of the experience of all places so as to make it the
guidance for the partition of land in the new Soviet districts.
The inspection movement mobilized by the Central Government
is directed to thoroughly wipe out the feudal remnants and to make
sure that the real benefits resulting from the agrarian revolution have
gone to the farming employees and to the poor and middle peasants.
According to the statistics of July, August, and September, 1933,
through this movement in the Central Soviet District that further
called forth the revolutionary militancy of the peasant masses, land-
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lords to the number of 6,988 families and the kulaks to the number
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of 6,638 families were disclosed, with land totalling 17,539 mou being
revoked, and money forfeits from the landlords and fines from
the kulaks, totalling $606,916, seized. The Farming Employee Trade
Union and the Poor Peasant Corps have now formed the pillars of
the Soviet in the villages! This is only the result of three months’
work which indicates that the Soviet has still to pay closer attention
to the class struggle in the villages. The result also shows that the
land inspection movement is an effective means to further develop
the village struggle and to annihilate the feudal remnants in the rural
districts. The class NOT line of the agrarian FORrevolution
is to depend
upon the farming employees and poor peasants, to ally the middle
peasants, to exploit the kulaks and to annihilate the landlords. The
correct practice of COMMERCIAL
this line is the key to the success of the agrarian
revolution and foundation for all other policies of the Soviet in the
villages. Hence the Soviet should deal seriously with those erroneous
tendencies that attempt to infringe upon the middle peasants or
to annihilate the DISTRIBUTION
kulaks. At the same time, it should also not let go
any error of making compromise with the landlords and kulaks. That
is the way to lead the agrarian revolution in the correct direction.
In the past two years we have gained much experience in our mass
work in the agrarian revolution. The summarized particulars are as
follows:
(1) Full mobilization of agricultural workers, poor and middle
peasants for struggle against landlords and kulaks is necessary in
the partition and inspection movements. The work of partition and
inspection should be done with concurrence of the masses. The determination
of class should be passed by mass meeting. To conduct