Main Tasks of the New-Democratic Revolution

The main tasks of the New-Democratic Revolution were to overthrow the rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism and to establish a new democratic country under the leadership of proletariat in China. In parallel, the mains task were also to establish a new democratic state power, change the semi-colonial and semi-feudal relations of production, fundamentally unfetter the productive forces, and lay the foundation for the realization of the industrialization and modernization of the country.

In December 1947, in "The Present Situation and Our Tasks", Mao Zedong pointed out: "Besides doing away with the special privileges of imperialism in China, the task of the New-Democratic Revolution at home is to abolish exploitation and oppression by the landlord class and by the bureaucrat-capitalist class (the big bourgeoisie), change the comprador, feudal relations of production and unfetter the productive forces.”

In April 1948, in his “Speech at a Conference of Cadres in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Liberated Area”, Mao Zedong pointed out: "The abolition of the feudal system and the development of agricultural production will lay the foundation for the development of industrial production and the transformation of an agricultural country into an industrial one, this is the ultimate goal of the New-Democratic Revolution.”

Imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism seriously hampered the development of China's productive forces, which were the most backward relations of production and the most decadent superstructure in China, and the root of poverty and backwardness in China. Only by overthrowing the rule of these three enemies, could China's productive forces be liberated and Chinese society progress and develop. Therefore, among the main tasks of the revolution, to overthrow imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism was the premise to realize the fundamental purpose of the New-Democratic Revolution of liberating and developing productive forces, and the latter was the inevitable result of the former.