Socialist Revolution Aims at Emancipation of Productive Forces

The main points of Mao Zedong's speech at the Sixth Meeting of the Supreme Council of State on January 25, 1956 are related to the understanding of the aim, method, situation, completion time and future development of the socialist revolution, which is an important document for promoting the socialist revolution. It was included in the Collected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume 7.

The speech pointed out that the purpose of the socialist revolution was to liberate the productive forces. The speech said: “agriculture and handicraft industry have changed from individual ownership to socialist collective ownership, and private industry and commerce from capitalist ownership to socialist ownership, which will inevitably liberate the productive forces greatly. In about three years, the socialist revolution will be basically completed nationwide. The socialist revolution in our country adopts a peaceful method, that is, persuasion and education.”