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CONCLUSIONS ON THE LAND INVESTIGATION CAMPAIGN
has hired regular farmhand, collected rent, and also extended loans,
he was, in short, classified as a landlord regardless of how many
people there were [then] in that family who could work. There was
also the question of “reactionary rich peasants” which turned out to
be considerable absurdity in many places. In Wuyang District there
was a rich peasant family who was also a merchant having seven
people to feed. In the past a member of the family who had joined
the A-B Corps was killed two years ago. Because of this, the comrades
there, two years later, insisted that they must confiscate the
entire [family] property. In many other places many a similar incident
took place. Many of the masses demanded punitive measures
against those rich peasants who, prior to the Uprising, had taken
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part in, not very serious, counter-revolutionary activity, like par-
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ticipating in the type of “collecting thirty percent rent in grain” (as
in Juichin), and have not since taken part in any counter-revolutionary
activity over the post-Uprising years; and some of our comrades
wanted, of necessity, to confiscate their property. Correctly speaking,
our measure of dealing with the [rich peasant] elements of this
type should be different in tactics in the consolidated region and in
the non-consolidated region and in the non-consolidated border region.
In the border region, unquestionably we employ a strict method
of suppressing all the counter-revolutionary elements including the
rich peasants; in the Central NOT Area it FOR should be determined according
to situations. Those who have committed a serious counter-revolutionary
action prior to the Uprising or those who are still engaged
in counter-revolutionary COMMERCIAL
activity should of course be subjected to
resolute confiscation. Others should not be subjected to confiscation.
Except the person in a certain family and the elements who
are directly involved with him in counter-revolutionary activity,
other people should DISTRIBUTION
not be subjected to confiscation. Such will be
the correct treatment.
7. THE DEPARTMENT OF
THE WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ INSPECTION
HAS NOT ASSUMED ITS OWN RESPONSIBILITY
AND COMMITTED SOME MISTAKES
Many of our comrades in the Department of the Workers’ and
Peasants’ Inspection do not understand that the duration of the Land
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