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inspected the donkeys sent this time, worked conscientiously,
and not given any favours, we, would not have made these
losses since everyone would have known about the poor donkeys.
(iv) If we had not stayed at inns along the way and let
the animals out to pasture not buying hay, we could have
saved over 50 yuan per donkey. What we save becomes earnings.
(v) We must pay more attention to the national laws.
Because we were not careful we had 50 jin of salt and one
sack confiscated. This was an unnecessary loss.
FROM MARX
TO MAO
(This report was published in the Liberation Daily 14, Septem-
⋆
ber 15, 1941.)
7. ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SELF-SUPPORTING INDUSTRY
The agriculture, animal husbandry, handicraft industry, co-operatives
and salt industry discussed above are all economic undertakings
by the people. The Party and government give guidance and
help within the bounds NOT of possibility FOR and need so that these things
can develop and the requirements of the people can be met. At the
same time, the portion handed over to the government by the people
in the form of taxes COMMERCIAL
ensures a part of the government’s needs (for
example, grain tax, salt tax and other taxes) and the portion handed
over in the form of trade ensures another part of the government’s
needs (for example, raw cotton, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, wool, etc.).
Their basic nature DISTRIBUTION
is that of undertakings run by the people. Only
in the case of the salt industry, where 40,000 packs of salt are transported
and sold under the control of the government’s Salt Company
and the 5,000 or so packs are consumed directly by government
personnel, does a part (about one-seventh of the whole) belong
to the public sector of the economy.
As a whole, the undertakings of the public sector of the economy
consist of the following three kinds: (1) the salt industry, industry
and commerce run by the government; (2) the agriculture, industry
and commerce run by the army; and (3) the agriculture, industry and
commerce of the official organization of the Party and government.