"Bad landlords" pre-supposes that there's such thing as a "good landlord." Anyways, long live Comrade Zohran, great follower of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought!

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chairmain Mao specifically accounted for good landlords. If you were a good landlord, your former tenants simply wouldn't shoot you in the head!

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In all seriousness, total land reform wasn't what the cpc originally wanted. They sought moderate reforms in line with China developing capitalist productive forces. They sought to remove only abusive, reactionary landlords, but this meant peasants could only get land reform by accusing their landlords of being abusive reactionaries. The communist intelligentsia was unable to stifle the revolutionary peasant movement, and land reform took place at their pace.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

but this meant peasants could only get land reform by accusing their landlords of being abusive reactionaries

Somehow I doubt they peasants had to lie about that very often, lol.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nobody is saying you can’t go there and say exactly that 👁️👁️