Why Has the Pattern of"A Large Country with Small-Scale Farming"Persisted?A Re-assessment Based on Marxism's"Theory of the Disappearance of Small-Scale Farming"
Realizing the historic leap from"a large country with small-scale farming"to"a large country with strong agricul-ture"is a vital theoretical proposition for promoting and expanding the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.Begin-ning with the macro-narrative of capital's"exploitative accumulation"and based on the natural-economic characteristics of traditional small-scale farming,Marxist classic writers elucidate their historical fate of being gradually marginalized by capi-talist machine production,and insightfully put forward the theoretical assumption that socialist countries should realize the re-integration of laborers and labor conditions through"the production and possession of cooperatives".After establishing a new socialist paradigm on the basis of leaping over"the caudine forks of capitalism"and successively promoting the collectiviza-tion reform and marketization exploration to help small-scale farming deeply integrate into the socialized large-scale produc-tion system,the Communist Party of China has achieved a breakthrough and innovation in the classical scale farming house-hold theory at the macro-background and subject-level,thus the pattern of"a large country with small-scale farming"has persisted to this day.Although the small-scale farming has been re-empowered with customization and discretion in the pro-duction process,commercial circulation capital is constantly"circuitous"from the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to grab their field-production surpluses.On the new journey,we must continue to consolidate and improve the collec-tive ownership of land to strictly prevent capital from entering rural areas to"land grab",re-activate the advantages of village collective co-ordination to enhance the organizational and socialization level of small-scale farming and achieve the common prosperity of all farmers through the dialectical unity of value creation and value realization,so as to chart a path of modern-ization of small-scale farming with Chinese characteristics in which household management is transferred and transformed.
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