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production task for all forces and official organizations and schools
in 1943 is gradually to transfer the again emphasis to agriculture,
industry and transport. In our present circumstances, agriculture is
particularly important since the majority of the things we need are
agriculture products (staple grain, miscellaneous grain, vegetables,
hemp, meat, vegetable-oil, animal-oil, cotton, horse-fodder, timber,
firewood, etc.). Agricultural products can also be exported in exchange
for industrial products. If we also undertake some possible
and necessary handicrafts (spinning yarn, spinning wool, making
shoes, weaving woollen thread and garments, digging coal, sawing
wood, pressing oil, etc.) and large light industry (textiles, papermaking),
we can meet the majority of our daily requirements and
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produce enough for trading.
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The second shortcoming is that we lack unified planning and
unified inspection. Lower levels act without co-ordination and upper
levels either do not have or lack sufficient unified direction,
planning and inspection of policy principles and work content. As a
result the various branches do not know what they should not do, or
do know but still do it. Thus instances of lack of co-ordination or
struggling for independence often occur. Incidents have arisen where
policy principles and government orders have been broken, where
the people’s interests have been damaged, where various economic
units have not only not NOT co-operated FOR but have competed and hindered
each other, where the upper levels have been deceived and not the
lower levels, or where both have been deceived, where things have
been kept back or COMMERCIAL
where lies have been told. There has been great
waste, reckless spending, concentration on show and not on results.
Particularly serious are cases of the evils of bribery and corruption
among cadres. Some cadres have been enticed by material things
and are not loyal DISTRIBUTION
to the sacred cause of communism, having become
completely corrupt. Other cadres, have been poisoned, and can only
get back to health by drying out in the sun. All these bad things and
all this corruption have occurred to a lesser or greater extent among
some parts of the army and in some official organizations and
schools. Henceforth, all upper-level leadership organs in the army
and the official organizations and schools must place emphasis on
looking after the whole situation and on grasping policy. They must
provide unified planning and inspection for the productive activities
of all subordinate units. They certainly must not permit the
abuses described above to occur again. If they do occur again, they