Take Mutual Aid and Cooperation in Agriculture as a Major Task
#PUBLICATION NOTE
This edition of Take Mutual Aid and Cooperation in Agriculture as a Major Task has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following editions:
- Take Mutual Aid and Co-operation in Agriculture as a Major Task, in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, First English Edition, Vol. 5, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1977.
- Take Mutual Aid and Cooperation in Agriculture as a Major Task, in the Collected Works of Mao Zedong, First Chinese Edition, Vol. 6, People's Publishing House, Beijing.
#INTRODUCTION NOTE
This is an inner-Party circular drafted by Comrade Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the 15th of December, 1951. It was first published in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Vol. 5, in 1977.
The circular was written rebuff Liu Shaoqi's opposition to the cooperative transformation of agriculture. In July 1951, behind the backs of Comrade Mao Zedong and the Party's Central Committee, Liu Shaoqi wrote and distributed a comment in his own name, wantonly attacking a report submitted by the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee on promoting mutual aid and cooperation in agricultural production. In this comment, he opposed Comrade Mao Zedong's line on the socialist transformation of agriculture, maligning it as an «erroneous, dangerous, and utopian notion of agrarian socialism». He also put forward the slogan: «To get rich is glorious!» In September of the same year, Comrade Mao Zedong personally took charge of drafting the Draft Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Mutual Aid and Cooperation in Agricultural Production, and on the 15th of December, when the Draft Resolution was to be distributed, he wrote this circular and instructed the whole Party to take mutual aid and cooperation in agriculture as a major task.
#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!
#TAKE MUTUAL AID AND COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE AS A MAJOR TASK
#CIRCULAR OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA
#Mao Zedong
#15th of December, 1951
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#To All Bureaus and Sub-Bureaus of the Central Committee and to All Provincial, Municipal, and District Party Committees
#1
Attached is the Draft Resolution on Mutual Aid and Cooperation in Agricultural Production which you are requested to print for distribution right down to the county and district Party committees. Please give prompt explanations inside and outside the Party in the spirit of this draft and arrange for its implementation. This is to be done in all areas where the land reform has been completed, and please take it as a major task. This Draft Resolution may appear in inner-Party publications, but not in newspapers and periodicals for general circulation, as it is still a draft.
#2
This draft is somewhat different from the draft sent to some comrades in October. Please withdraw the October draft as invalid.