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the struggle for class Examination. We must concentrate all our
energy, particularly in alliance with the middle peasants, to cope
with the resistance of the landlords and rich peasants. In such
an event we should not allow any dispute to take place within
the ranks of peasants themselves.” (Conclusion of the Eight-
County Conference)
Such a tactic is a most important part of the whole strategy in our
leadership of the struggle of land investigation. Nevertheless it was
what many comrades had still neglected. Such a negligence cannot
be tolerated again, even for a moment. Those who have been admonished
but still deliberately continue these mistakes, must be
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meted out with severe punishments by the higher Soviet of the lo-
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cality. We need to wage thorough struggle within the Party and Youth
League against the idea and action of any Party or Youth League
members who encroach upon the interests of the middle peasants
and violate the strategy of alliance with the middle peasants. In
places where mistakes are already committed by confiscating, for
example, the property and land of the middle peasant, the Soviet
personnel should publicly admit their mistakes to the middle peasants
in the locality and should redeem them forthwith. That
Hsiangkuo County reinstituted many lands of the middle peasants
last year, thus to win their satisfaction, is a very valuable lesson.
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5. CLOSED-DOOR-ISM OF THE POOR PEASANT CORPS
AND ITS NEGLIGENCE OF THE LEADERSHIP ROLE OF
THE HIRED HANDS ARE WRONG
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“Poor peasant masses are the pillars of the Party and the proletariat
in the countryside and are the resolute supporters of a thoroughgoing
execution of the land revolution.” “To rely on the poor
peasants” is one of our important policies in the land investigation
and in all the struggles for land, the Poor Peasant Corps is the organization
that plays an extremely important role [here]. The Eight-
County Poor Peasant Corps Representatives’ Conference has already
pointed out that the past tendency of closed-doorism of the Poor
Peasant Corps was wrong, and that the system of introduction should
be discarded, and that the door should be kept wide-open to the poor
peasants and workers so that they, male and female, old and young,