Energetically Organize the Exchange between Industrial and Agricultural Products

The Third Plenary Session of the Party's Eleventh Central Committee pointed out that the whole Party should now concentrate its main efforts on advancing agriculture as fast as possible and that "this requires first of all arousing the socialist enthusiasm of our country's several hundred million peasants, paying full attention to their material well-being, economically, and giving effective protection to their democratic rights, politically." The exchange between industrial and agricultural products is an important aspect of our rural economic policy. A crucial problem in this period during which we are advancing agriculture as fast as possible is to arouse the socialist enthusiasm of the peasants through exchange between industrial and agricultural products and the implementation of the Party's rural economic policy. Lenin had pointed out: "It is impossible to establish ... an altogether stable form of economic alliance between these two classes [the proletariat and the peasantry]. without regular commodity exchange or the exchange of products between industry and agriculture. (>u>1>/u>) That is to say, the successful organization of the commodity exchange between industrial and agricultural products is of great significance to the correct handling of our relations with the peasants, consolidation of the worker-peasant alliance, and socialist construction.