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72 MAO TSE-TUNG
investigation committee alone.” This theory of the comrades in
Taching District can truly be a fantastic story in the whole world!
In goodly many places landlords and their properties were confiscated
not in the daytime but in the evening. The only reason was
that they were afraid that the landlords would run way. In one
place a mass meeting was held using the technique of holding an
“all-district meeting” but no more than a couple or hundred of
people attended. Three people took turns to speak from the morning
to the afternoon not letting the masses take intermissions, nor
letting them drink water or eat. They said that they were afraid
that the masses would run away. Such a barbarous method can also
be a fantastic one of its kind.
FROM MARX
TO MAO
9. DEVELOP A TWO-FRONT
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STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME
THE MISTAKES AND WIN A THOROUGH VICTORY
IN THE LAND INVESTIGATION CAMPAIGN
Undoubtedly the Land Investigation Campaign has been unleashed
over vast areas. However, when this campaign is in progress,
when we correctly estimate the achievement already gained and consolidate
the foundation of growth of the campaign, we should yet
realize with vigilance, NOT obstacles to FOR be encountered in the course of
the campaign. Only through the unleashing of the fire power of the
two-front struggle to clear away these obstacles, can we advance
the Land Investigation COMMERCIAL
Campaign even more rapidly. To start the
fight against the Rightist thought, to combat the underestimation of
the grave significance of the Land Investigation Campaign, to combat
the compromise and the surrender to the landlords and rich peasants,
and to combat DISTRIBUTION
the tailism in leadership of the mass struggle,
are the responsibility of every Communist Party member. At the
same time, attention of all the Party members should be focused on
the danger of encroaching on the middle peasants and a “severe blow
should be dealt to any attempt to violate the interests of the middle
peasants,” for this is the sufficiently serious danger which has been
manifested in the present work of land investigation. Incorrect ideas
about the rich peasants, too, will undoubtedly affect the middle peasants.
All barbarous acts of commandism are of the greatest harm to
the alliance with the middle peasants. Only upon elimination of all
obstacles in the course of the Land Investigation Campaign by the