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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
After each regiment and unit has received this plan, it should at
once call a meeting of production cadres to discuss implementation.
The general plan for the regiment or unit and the plan for each provisions
unit (including their own plans for vegetables, edible oil,
lamp-oil, hemp for making sandals and so forth for which they have
been self-sufficient for three years) should be reported upwards by
the end of November. It is important that this should be obeyed.
The above materials show us that the army’s self-supporting production
has undoubtedly achieved a great deal. What have these
achievements depended on? These have depended on the active leadership
of the cadres and the labour enthusiasm of the troops. The
cadres have given active leadership to the production movement
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consciously in order to overcome difficulties in the course of the
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revolution. The troops have taken part in productive labour consciously
in order to overcome difficulties in the course of the revolution.
If these two groups had not had this conscious awareness, if
they had not felt that their work was not for others but for themselves,
not for some worthless cause but for the sacred cause of the
revolution, there would have been no ways for them to fulfil these
difficult production tasks. If they had felt they were hired labourers,
if they had felt that the production they carried out had no relationship
to their own interests and no relationship to the common
revolutionary cause, there NOT would have FOR been no way to fulfil these
production tasks.
Above we have discussed the fine experience and great achievements
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in self-supporting production. Below we shall
again discuss the shortcomings in our work.
Our work has shortcomings, and these shortcomings are not only
found in the army but also in the official organizations and schools.
Some of these shortcomings DISTRIBUTION
were unavoidable in the past. However,
after five years’ experience we should be able to correct them.
Some have already become serious abuses. If we do not correct them,
they will hinder the interests of the Party and the revolution.
What are these shortcomings?
First, in order to solve urgent problems of self-sufficiency
quickly some army units and some official organizations and schools
have relatively or specially stressed commerce and neglected agriculture
and industry. They do not realize that only agriculture and
industry produce value. Commerce is merely a medium of circulation.
It cannot produce any value itself. Warned by experience, the
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