After Solving the Ownership Issue, the Most Important Issue Is Management

From the winter of 1959 to the spring of 1960, the reading group organized by Mao Zedong successively took the method of reading while discussing in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and read through the second volume of the revised third edition of Political Economics Textbook of the Soviet Union compiled by the Institute of Economics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (People's Press, 1959 Edition).

During this period, Mao Zedong made many speeches. On the basis of summing up the lessons of eager transition in the "Great Leap Forward" period, Mao Zedong pointed out: "the reform of ownership always has a bottom and cannot be unlimited in a certain period of time.” "During the period when the nature of ownership is relatively stable, the relationship between people in labor production cannot but be changed continuously."

He said: "after the question of ownership is basically solved, the most important question is management, that is, how to manage enterprises owned by the whole people and how to manage enterprises owned by collectives, that is, the relationship between people.”

He criticized the Political Economics Textbook of the Soviet Union for its empty words on the relationship between people in labor production, that is, the relationship between people under the socialist system is a "comradeship relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation." He believed that this sentence was correct, but it was not expanded, analyzed and touched on substantive issues.

On this issue, we wrote a lot of articles, and there will be "a lot of articles to write" in the future. The theme of the related article is how to manage enterprises and social economic life according to the democratic principles.