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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPANESE WAR
because they did no work at all, paid no grain tax, and caused trouble
every time there was mobilization work. As for the loafers themselves,
after they obtained some real results from production, they
realized that the government was acting for their betterment. The
above examples clarify this point. As for those who were extremely
stubborn and refused to change, some even running away when the
government tried to mobilize them, on their return they joined in a
little light productive labour. In this county no loafers have become
bandits. We have not referred to this report of the leading
comrades of the Party and government of Yanan county without purpose.
The spirit of the comrades of Yanan county is entirely the
spirit of Bolsheviks. Their attitude is enthusiastic, and there is not
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the slightest passivity in their thoughts and in their actions. They
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are not at all afraid of difficulties, and are able vigorously and firmly
to overcome them all. Look how responsible they are towards their
work: “In 1942 agricultural credit was given rather late. The earlier
credit is given the sooner more land can be opened up!” “It was a
necessary to solve each problem rapidly and at the correct time: A
delay of one day reduces the amount of land opened up!” “Determine
the production plans of each peasant household.” “The tight
grasp of the leadership and the strict check-ups played a decisive
role in the completion of the task.” How vastly different and hoar
much better is this spirit NOT than that FOR of those timid people who draw
back, full of sighs when they meet difficulties, and of those who are
not conscientious in their work and try to get by and neglect things!
Imbued with such COMMERCIAL
spirit, there is not one thing that the comrades of
Yanan did not handle realistically and practically. They have a full
understanding of the feelings, needs, and concrete circumstances of
all the people of Yanan county. They are completely united with the
masses. They carry DISTRIBUTION
out extremely good investigation and research,
and thus they have learned the Marxist art of leading the massed.
They are entirely without subjectivism, sectarianism, and the Party
“eight-legged essay”. How does this compare with those subjectivists
who do not solve problems according to the demands of the
masses but according to their own subjective imagination? And with
those bureaucrats who do no investigation and research work at all
end, though they work for many years, have no idea of whet is going
on beneath them? In there not a world of difference between
them? We hope all the comrades of the Border Region will have
this spirit of the comrades of Yanan, this attitude towards their work,
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