Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No. 6, 2021

 

The Historical Logic of the Peasant’s Land Issues and China’s Choice of Development Path: An Important Perspective on the Historic Struggle of the Communist Party of China over the Past Century

(Abstract)

 

Sun Leqiang

 

Peasant’s land issues were not only of great concern to Marx and Engels but also an important breakthrough in the integration of historical materialism with the specific reality of each country. Over the past 100 years, the Communist Party of China has promoted land reforms of different forms and contents in accordance with China’s specific national conditions for rural land issues in different historical periods, and has blazed a unique Chinese path of revolution, construction, reform and agricultural modernization. From the perspective of macro-history, an in-depth grasp of the Party’s understanding of peasant’s land issues and their approaches in different historical periods will not only help us better understand the historical logic of the adaptation of Marxism to China’s conditions and the historical evolution and unique significance of the Chinese path, but will also help us have a deeper grasp of the historic struggle and the original aspiration and mission of the Party over the past century.