The peasants don’t have to worry about their land, because the provincial
and local party committees and the Central Committee can’t take it away;
what they’re disputing about is products and the labor force. When we say that
land is under collective ownership, within that we ought to draft a document
stating that in fact it is under brigade ownership. If land, tools and means of
production plus human labor and the commune only come to 25 percent,
don’t you think that’s too little? Our present opposition to particularism has
brought about a tense situation that is growing tenser. Really, 15 percent kept
back ought to be made legal. The State’s and commune’s accumulation of 25
percent and production costs of 20 percent and the mass distribution of 55
percent, form a fixed proportion, but as production develops year by year the
absolute numbers will increase. The practice of taking away their cabbage and
pigs and not giving them a cent must be changed.