MAO TSE TUNG - SELECTED WORKS / VOL.5

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TACTICAL PROBLEMS OF RURAL WORK IN THE NEW LIBERATED AREAS May @$, !($*

It is necessary to give over-all consideration to the tactical problems of rural work in the new Liberated Areas. In these areas we must make full use of the experience gained in the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan; for a considerable period after their liberation we should apply the social policy of reducing rent and interest and properly adjusting the supplies of seed and food grains and the financial policy of reasonable distribution of burdens; we should aim our main blows only at the important counter-revolutionaries who side politically with the Kuomintang and stubbornly oppose our Party and our army, just as we only arrested the traitors and confiscated their property during the period of the War of Resistance, and we should not immediately apply the social reform policy of distributing movable property and land. The reason is that only a few bolder elements would welcome the premature distribution of movable property and that the basic masses would not get anything and would therefore be dissatisfied. Moreover, hasty dispersal of social wealth is to the disadvantage of the army. Premature distribution of land would prematurely place the entire burden of military requirements on the peasants instead of on the landlords and rich peasants. In the sphere of social reform, it is better not to distribute movable property and land but instead to reduce rent and interest universally so that the peasants will receive tangible benefits, and in financial policy we should effect a reasonable distribution of burdens so that the landlords and rich peasants will pay more. In this way, social wealth will not be dispersed and public order will be comparatively stable, and this will help us concentrate all our forces on destroying the Kuomintang reactionaries. After one, two or even three years, when the Kuomintang reactionaries have been wiped out in extensive base areas, 251


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THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE IDEALIST CONCEPTION OF HISTORY

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pages 457-472

FAREWELL, LEIGHTON STUART

16min
pages 439-446

“FRIENDSHIP” OR AGGRESSION?

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pages 453-456

CAST AWAY ILLUSIONS, PREPARE FOR STRUGGLE

16min
pages 431-438

WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO DISCUSS THE WHITE PAPER

10min
pages 447-452

ON THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP

30min
pages 417-430

ICAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE

8min
pages 411-416

PROCLAMATION OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY

6min
pages 403-406

CHINESE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY

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pages 407-410

ORDER TO THE ARMY FOR THE COUNTRY-WIDE ADVANCE

23min
pages 393-402

METHODS OF WORK OF PARTY COMMITTEES

10min
pages 383-388

WHITHER THE NANKING GOVERNMENT?

6min
pages 389-392

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

29min
pages 367-382

OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAR

16min
pages 357-366

CHINA

7min
pages 339-342

TURN THE ARMY INTO A WORKING FORCE

5min
pages 343-346

THE KUOMINTANG REACTIONARIES TURN FROM AN “APPEAL FOR PEACE” TO AN APPEAL FOR WAR

5min
pages 353-356

OF CHINA

16min
pages 331-338

MUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

8min
pages 321-326

YUAN

4min
pages 327-330

ON THE WAR CRIMINAL’S SUING FOR PEACE

9min
pages 315-320

COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

18min
pages 275-284

CARRY THE REVOLUTION THROUGH TO THE END

17min
pages 305-314

CAMPAIGN

10min
pages 295-300

MESSAGE URGING TU YU-MING AND OTHERS TO SURRENDER

5min
pages 301-304

THE MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN CHINA’S MILITARY SITUATION

4min
pages 293-294

IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION

6min
pages 289-292

THE CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS FOR THE HUAI-HAI CAMPAIGN

7min
pages 285-288

CAMPAIGN

13min
pages 267-272

ON STRENGTHENING THE PARTY COMMITTEE SYSTEM

2min
pages 273-274

IN 1948

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pages 259-266

AREAS

2min
pages 257-258

TELEGRAM TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE LOYANG FRONT AFTER THE RECAPTURE OF THE CITY

4min
pages 253-256

DAILY

9min
pages 247-252

LIBERATED AREA

25min
pages 233-246

A CIRCULAR ON THE SITUATION

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pages 225-232

NEW TYPE OF IDEOLOGICAL EDUCATION MOVEMENT IN THE LIBERATION ARMY

15min
pages 217-224

ENLIGHTENED GENTRY

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pages 213-216

AREAS

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pages 207-208

ON THE POLICY CONCERNING INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE

4min
pages 209-212

CORRECT THE “LEFT” ERRORS IN LAND REFORM PROPAGANDA

3min
pages 203-206

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4min
pages 199-202

POLICY

15min
pages 187-196

THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN THE ARMY

2min
pages 197-198

ON SETTING UP A SYSTEM OF REPORTS

5min
pages 183-186

THE PRESENT SITUATION AND OUR TASKS

42min
pages 163-182

STRATEGY FOR THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR OF LIBERATION

13min
pages 147-152

LIBERATION ARMY

2min
pages 161-162

MANIFESTO OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY

13min
pages 153-160

THE CHAING KAI-SHEK GOVERNMENT IS BESIEGED BY THE WHOLE PEOPLE

9min
pages 141-146

THEATRE

3min
pages 139-140

THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

6min
pages 135-138

GREET THE NEW HIGH TIDE OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION

17min
pages 125-134

A THREE MONTHS’ SUMMARY

13min
pages 119-124

THE CIVIL WAR IN CHINA

5min
pages 115-118

CONCENTRATE A SUPERIOR FORCE TO DESTROY THE ENEMY FORCES ONE BY ONE

10min
pages 109-114

BUILD STABLE BASE AREAS IN THE NORTHEAST

9min
pages 87-92

STRONG

11min
pages 103-108

DEFENCE

15min
pages 95-102

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3min
pages 93-94

POLICY FOR WORK IN THE LIBERATED AREAS FOR 1946

9min
pages 81-86

CHAING KAI-SHEK IS PROVOKING CIVIL WAR

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pages 33-38

MATTERS FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE LIBERATED AREAS

4min
pages 77-80

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

9min
pages 53-58

ON THE CHUNGKING NEGOTIATIONS

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pages 59-70

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE KUOMINTANG'S ATTACKS

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ON A STATEMENT BY CHAING KAI-SHEK'S SPOKESMAN

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