Chinese Peasant in Early 1950s

Following the victory of the Communist rebels in China in 1949, the government of China was reconstituted as the People's Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Tsetung. The rural peasantry scattered throughout the many Chinese provinces appears to have been an important element of the Communist victory, hence a key to the structure of postrevolutionary society. Indeed, the longterm connection of Mao with the peasantry has been noted by a number of commentators. Initially an urban revolutionary, Mao "grasped the peasants' revolutionary possibilities" (Solomon, 1971, p. 191) in the mid1920s. Solomon quotes Mao's view of the central role of the peasantry in revolutionary theory:

Formerly I had not fully realized the degree of class struggle among the peasantry, but after the May 30 [1925] Incident, and during the great wave of political activity which followed it, the Hunanese peasantry became very militant. I left my home, where I had been resting, and began a rural organizational campaign. In a few months we had formed more

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tionship that the respective country's Party structure had with its own proletariat. "The Bolshevik leadership's alternatives," say Nee and Peck, "were always limited by their profound alienation from the peasantry and their acceptance of state power to control and quickly dominate independent forces. . . . The resort to bureaucratic power to control from the top down  to lead a second revolution through administrative decree  was the result. The Chinese Communist party, on the other had, had developed deep roots among many diverse groups in Chinese society" (Nee & Peck, 1975, pp. 204-205). As Buchanan describes it, at every stage of land reform the party's method was to make the revolution into a product of the country's people. The CCP routinely sent party elite into villages to organize the peasants around the issue of land reform, and then implement reforms in fact. The effect was twofold. On one hand, the peasants would experience a personal stake in the reforms and willy nilly experience politicization and socialization. On the other, they would understand that it was the party which had initiated, facilitated, and carried through such reforms on their behalf. Accordingly, their political loyalty to the party would b
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