Mao Tse-tung

REPORT ON
AN INVESTIGATION OF
THE PEASANT MOVEMENT
IN HUNAN


From the
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
Foreign Languages Press
Peking 1967

First Edition 1965
Second Printing 1967

Vol. 1, pp. 23-59.


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (May 1997)

C O N T E N T S

The Importance of the Peasant Problem

23

Get Organized

24

Down with the Local Tyrants and Evil Gentry! All Power to
the Peasant Associations!

25

"It's Terrible!" or "It's Fine!"

26

The Question of "Going Too Far"

27

The "Movement of the Riffraff"

29

Vanguards of the Revolution

30

Fourteen Great Achievements

34

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 Organizing the Peasants into Peasant Associations
 Hitting the Landlords Politcally
 Hitting the Landlords Economically
 Overthrowing the Feudal Rule of the Local Tyrants and
 Evil Gentry -- Smashing the Tu and Tuan
 Overthrowing the Armed Forces of the Landlords and
 Establishing Those of the Peasants
 Overthrowing the Political Power of the County
 Magistrate and His Bailiffs
 Overthrowing the Clan Authority of the Ancestral Temples
 and Clan Elders, the Religious Authority of the Town and
 Village Gods, and the Masculine Authority of Husbands
 Spreading Political Propaganda
 Peasant Bans and Prohibitions
 Eliminating Banditry
 Abolishing Exhorbitant Levies
 The Movement for Education
 The Co-operative Movement
 Building Roads and Repairing Embankments

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NOTES

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