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CONTENTS

THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY CIVIL WAR PERIOD

ANALYSIS OF THE CLASSES IN CHINESE SOCIETY 13
REPORT ON AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PEASANT MOVEMENT
IN HUNAN 23
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
1. Organizing the Peasants into Peasant Associations 34
2. Hitting the Landlords Politically 35
3. Hitting the Landlords Economically 39
4. Overthrowing the Feudal Rule of the Local Tyrants and Evil
Gentry — Smashing the Tu and Tuan 40
5. Overthrowing the Armed Forces of the Landlords and Establishing
Those of the Peasants 41
6. Overthrowing the Political Power of the County Magistrate and
His Bailiffs 42
7. Overthrowing the Clan Authority of the Ancestral Temples and
Clan Elders, the Religious Authority of Town and Village Gods,
and the Masculine Authority of Husbands 44
8. Spreading Political Propaganda 47
9. Peasant Bans and Prohibitions 49
10. Eliminating Banditry 52
11. Abolishing Exorbitant Levies 53
12. The Movement for Education 53
13. The Co-operative Movement 54
14. Building Roads and Repairing Embankments 55
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