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This book also provides raw data about rural reforms. One example is: the
realization of the fixed output quotas for each household (called the household
responsibility contract system today), and advancing it from the demand of the masses
to a legal policy under the Party and government cost a particularly high price and
also took a long time. Why? For the younger generation, this subject is particularly
difficult to comprehend.
In a backward agricultural country, for the working class, to gain political power
and determine how to develop towards socialism requires a relatively long period of
transition. This stage is to prepare the conditions for socialism, but between the
development of productivity and the eradication of class and ownership reform,
which should be the priority task? Should there be a new stage of democratic
construction allowing for the simultaneous development of a variety of economies?
Should we encourage farmers’ enthusiasm to develop individual economy? What is
the most suitable speed for advancing rural cooperatives? There were divergences
in all these aspects. How to treat fixed output quotas per household was yet another
issue that invited endless debate. The result was an understanding that at least from
the 1950s and into the late 1970s, fixed output quotas per household were
prohibited. This was once the consensus within the Party, which consequently
became a high-level decision that could not be undone |
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