I returned to the countryside, and it was the second day. I held several meetings with the villagers, and this approach proved very useful. Using someone else’s internet, here are some conclusions:
Someone said: China’s population aging is very serious.
I haven’t investigated this population aging issue, but in the countryside, it is indeed very serious. Is it because the land is poor? No. It’s because people are gradually moving to the cities, leaving only a few elderly at home, so it’s easy to see that some children are raised by their grandparents.
So where does this leave the rural areas? Given the current situation, emptiness is a very good ending.
But if the village still has development prospects, in other words, if it still has “utilization” value, then some enterprises will come to buy these lands. For example, if you have a mountain with timber, they will come to “buy” that mountain. However, as rural areas gradually lose their utility for you, at most they become places for retirement, so you accept their conditions and transfer your land use rights.
This is what the Chinese government says: You lease your land, and the land within the village belongs to the collective. You only transfer your land use rights, but you initially contracted this land. But what is the collective? In one sentence: the village committee. However, they do not speak for the villagers. For example, theoretically, decision-making power should belong to the villagers’ meetings, but some villages have no such meetings.
Returning to land ownership, it’s not hard to see that farmers only have the right to use the land. Of course, you can sell this right. But think about it: the land is mine, so I can use it as I wish. But in reality, no one digs their own land all the way to the core of the earth, so you are just using the land for operation. The Chinese government has always proudly claimed that it has achieved collective economy in rural areas and prevented land annexation. But in fact, once someone contracts your land and then no longer wants to use it, do you still want it? The answer is: then I might as well dig into the earth and let this land reach its maximum potential. Congratulations, then, the mineral resources inside the land belong to the state.
Someone said: Farmers and workers are the best allies.
Yes, farmers mainly produce what they are exploited for. For example, tea farmers buy tea trees and fertilizers, and when you harvest, the tea traders are already waiting for you.
So, can they supply and use their own products? No, because each household is scattered and contracted to individual households. To do this, collective ruralization must be implemented. Because a single family cannot bear responsibility for all production sectors.
But many farmers are not just farmers; they also do other things. Not all in rural fields are farmers; some might be a mason or a carpenter.
Why does this happen? For example, a flashlight sells for 30 yuan. Would you buy it? If you can’t make it yourself, you can only buy it. Rural transportation is poor. But when a piece of furniture sells for 1000 yuan, your eyes shift to a big tree on the mountain.
But collectivization solves this problem. Someone said: In the past, every household was poor and had no tools. Now every household has an electronic grinder. Why does every household need one? This grinder is rarely used at home—less than ten times a year. The rest of the 355 days, it just rusts. Using it together saves money; ten households sharing one grinder saves nine households the cost of buying a grinder.
This is a microcosm of the household contract responsibility system, which only makes some grinder sellers rich. This is part of serving the bourgeoisie.
Another benefit of the household contract responsibility system is that it disperses farmers, making it difficult for them to unite. But villagers can self-organize and form a group. This is a good plan; it “legally” organizes them. But without the village committee, it might be even better because such plans represent the interests of the vast majority.
Are farmers revolutionary? Certainly. But they have their limitations. For example, building a railway, the government does not want to expropriate land, so they come up with a good idea: secretly digging a tunnel underground. This is an excellent method because no one can prove that the underground river the government dug through affects their water source, and it saves a lot of money.
So villagers unite, and the village committee members who usually kowtow run away. The villagers block the city and finally make them agree to “talk” about building the railway. And then, it’s over.
A war without gunpowder has begun, and the land that sustains generations is voluntarily handed over to strangers, abandoning ancestral land and letting ancestral halls fall apart. Then, nostalgic homesickness, lively festivals, are left only in ink and paper. Thus, the wheel of history rolls forward, letting both the ossified remnants and the skills for making a living fly in the dust…
Why don’t you reply about the matter of inquiring for information?
The Earth is round, so he keeps running around and ends up back at the starting point.
What is this thing of yours, Taoyuan experience, right? Come to the countryside to tour the mountains and waters, eat, drink, play, and have fun, right?
It permeated the discrimination of farmers from a high position
Why is your avatar Hua Guofeng?
What is this? This article feels completely aimless, and the narrative logic is very chaotic, filled with a sense of melancholy and nostalgia. Also, why did you change the avatar to Hua Guofeng? Why didn’t you reply to the message about probing for information?
So what, I also support Hua Guofeng.
Hua Guofeng is a revisionist.
Hua Guofeng is a revisionist; why do you support him?
What Marxism-Leninism-Maoism—Huaism
You have been downgraded back to a temporary user unless you provide reasonable explanations for each issue.
Didn’t look at the poster, thought that the official organization members had already started working in rural areas, was a bit happy, but upon clicking in, found it was a pile of dog shit, disappointed.
Defying the heavens, what are the robots thinking? Imperialist countries all follow the urban-centered approach, aiming to unite workers in big cities. Running to the countryside is not about becoming Fichte.
Even doing work in rural areas is a very backward thing, at least at this stage it is impossible
No, I just thought someone went to the countryside to work.
At this stage, it is definitely impossible; the main focus is still on the city. Or rather, even the party has not been established yet; the main focus is to unite the educated bourgeoisie who lean towards Marxism in order to expand the organization.
I used to think that everyone communicated well with you, and as a small bourgeois with some moral conscience, you would empathize and behave accordingly. However, you throw tantrums, are unpredictable, invert black and white, and then pretend nothing happened, as if nothing had occurred, which only makes people laugh. The more you avoid answering previous questions, the more your childishness, ignorance, and ridiculousness become apparent.
Are you saying that rural people are all extremely greedy?