China's Household System Tradition and Rural Development Road - Reference to the Village and Society Traditions of Russia and India

Xu Yong basic system. In the primitive traditions of the Eastern countries, unlike the village system in Russia and India, China is a household system, and on this basis, it forms a unique road to rural development in China. These include: agricultural management organizations based on household operations, complementary agricultural and commercial industries based on the integration of agricultural and industrial businesses within households, rural cooperative forms based on mutual assistance between households and households, and rural governance systems based on the joint governance of households and countries. In the process of rural development in China, despite the abandonment of the household system, it still constitutes the institutional background of current and future rural development. In the current and future development of China's rural areas, it is necessary to attach great importance to and in-depth excavation of this basic system and the origin of tradition, and establish the necessary connections between tradition and modernity in order to form a development path with Chinese characteristics.

China is now in the historical transformation between tradition and modernity. In the process of exploring the path of modern society's development, it is equally important to pay attention to the traditional "continuity" and focus on the "innovation" that transcends tradition. Those primitive traditions that can have a long-term impact on modern society constitute the basic system for the development of modern society and are the historical starting point and set conditions for modern society. The preface to his translation of the book by Nobel laureate Amatiasen said: "China must build its future without abandoning its past" and quote a Chinese classic name to this article. Department of Education Humanities Society The focus of the scientific research is on the results of the “Studies on the World's Rural and Peasant Issues in the Modernization Process” of the major project of the Base (11JJD840007). The road to rural development in China is a key issue that I have been concerned about in recent years. In April 2011, the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office convened 10 experts to discuss rural development conferences in Zhongnanhai. Chen Xiwen, director of the office and a famous scholar, spoke at the meeting about the issue of how to promote rural development in the tradition of a long-standing eastern village and hoped that experts would study it. This article is regarded as an answer to Director Chen's suggestion, although it may be an unsatisfactory answer sheet. On May 4, 2012, in the opening speech of the Chen Shuqu Comparative Political Development Research Center at Fudan University, I presented the keynote speech titled "Comparing Foreign Countries as the Ownership System of China's Eastern Villages" with a methodological presentation. Understanding the three basic propositions of historical change: first, the starting point determines the path; second, the transformation of the prototype regulation; third, understanding macro issues with the microscopic mechanism, thus establishing the methodological basis for this article. In this regard, and thank the relevant units and individuals!

The sentence "and the ancient is new." 1 China is a large eastern country with a long tradition of agricultural civilization. It thus constructed a basic national condition of contemporary China, a “big country, a small farmer,” a large peasant country composed of hundreds of millions of farmer households; and it has formed a unique “long history” process. "Chinese characteristics" includes a unique Chinese national tradition. This tradition is not only different from the “western” manor tradition represented by Western Europe, but also different from Russia and India. Therefore, only through in-depth and detailed comparison can we accurately grasp the ontological system with “Chinese characteristics”. Seek the historical context and future trend of China's rural development path from tradition, and establish the relationship between tradition and modernity. This article attempts to make some discussion on the tradition, the tradition of Chinese households and the road to rural development.

I. Recognition of “Traditional” and “Oriental” Since the abolition of the people’s communes system, China has always used family management as the basic production and management system in rural areas.

The “Family Farm” first proposed in the No. 1 Document of the Central Committee in 2013 still regards the family as the basic production and business unit.

The production and management of one household can be said to be the ontological issue of rural development in China. However, the Chinese academic community lacks in-depth discussion on this issue. Wang Huning’s early exploration of the "China's Village and Family Culture in a Pair of Chinese Social Modernization Explorations" published in 1991 earlier noted the relevance of traditional Chinese culture and modernization, but did not discuss the ontological issue of Chinese rural society. In the late 1990s, Zhang Letian described the village system as the ontological tradition of China's rural areas in his book “Farewell to Ideal: A Study of the People's Commune System.” However, Qin Hui thinks that this is the view of Japanese scholars. It also has the characteristics of Japan's rural ontological system, and has published the "Great Community Standard" and traditional Chinese society. It regards the People's Commune as a "major community-based tradition" for China. Strengthened. 3 In the recent discussions on the new tradition of socialism, some scholars have also advocated treating the people's communes as a new tradition in China today. 4 Then, how do we understand the historical tradition, what is the traditional system that governs China’s rural development and has a long-term role? The changes in society are governed by historical inertia. Social factors that have been formed and accumulated through long-term social history will affect society today and tomorrow. Changes and paths have regulatory implications, forming a “base” of social development or what Marx said: “People create their own history, but they are not created as they please, not created under conditions that they have chosen. But in the direct, established, and inherited from the past, Amatiasen: "Development with freedom", Ren Wei, Yu Zhenzhi, Beijing: Renmin University of China Press, Wang Huning: "The Contemporary Chinese Village A Study of Family Culture on China's Social Modernization. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1991.

Qin Hui, "Peasant China: Historical Reflections and Realistic Choices", Zhengzhou: Henan People's Publishing House, 2003, created under conditions. "1 Therefore, the question first lies in how we understand and understand the "traditional".

To measure from two aspects. First, it is a constructive concept. It is the comparison and distinction between new and old. The old belongs to tradition. As a constructive concept, it is divided into two discourse systems. The first is the revolutionary discourse, which basically holds a negative attitude toward the tradition. Marx and Engels stated in the "Producing Party Declaration": "The communist revolution is the most thorough break with traditional ownership relations; it is not surprising that it must break with traditional concepts in its own development process. "2." Here, "tradition" refers to the "old" private ownership and its private ownership; while the revolution is to "break the old and establish new." Old and "new" are dualistic and mutually exclusive. China entered the 20th century In the past 70 years, the revolutionary discourse dominated, and the attitude toward the tradition was critical and negative.The socialist transformation of agriculture that began in the 1950s also belonged to this category.The second is modern discourse.The German sociologist Weber from the point of view of the authority, The society has been classified: the traditional society, the modern society, and the Karismma society in between.The traditional society belongs to the pre-modern society and is a social form different from the modern society. Although the modern discourse system does not simply criticize and To deny "traditional" but it still belongs to the dualistic analysis method, which puts the traditional society against the modern society without paying attention to the two. Contact Chinese intellectual .20 since the 1970s, the modern discourse system gradually dominated.

Second, it is a narrative concept that is measured from the past, present, and future time dimensions. This is a historical discourse system. Tradition is something that has appeared in the past and is a product of history. However, history is the sum of different things. What does "tradition" actually include? This is the dilemma of the historical discourse system. Some people therefore divided "traditional" into "great traditions" and "little traditions" such as "the first 30 years of tradition" and "the latter 30 years of tradition" since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In general, tradition is a relativistic, historical concept that is relative to current and modernity.

The reason that the society that is in the process of modernization must pay attention to tradition is because it must face the question of how to deal with tradition when it comes to the process of modernization. This led to two claims: First, traditionalism. Whenever there is a problem in the development of modernization, it will advocate a return to tradition. It seeks to solve the secrets of practical problems from the tradition, such as Marx's once criticized "dead man grasps the living man." Regardless of whether this proposal is feasible, no matter what, it is difficult to answer the question: What is tradition and what traditions are returning to, such as China has a revolutionary tradition today, but also has the Confucian tradition. However, these two traditions have inherent value conflicts: The former emphasizes the destruction of the established order, while the latter emphasizes the maintenance of the established order. As far as China’s rural development path is concerned, there is a tradition of the people’s communes and there is also a long-standing economic tradition of households. So what tradition does it return to? So, there is an inherent logical contradiction in traditionalism.

The second is modernism as opposed to traditionalism. Since the modernization became the value orientation of contemporary society, the discourse of modernism has a fatal weakness, that is, neglecting or ignoring the present moment comes from the past. In this paper, the modern undertaking of the tradition is precisely the "traditional" factors formed by those long-term histories that profoundly influence and restrict the development of modern society. The American scholar Moore had a profound understanding of this: "In the history of the two major civilized forms, the legacy of the fragmented traditional society left behind by a large number of class factors will have a strong effect on the shape of future history." Or respect for tradition, can we learn from the rich resources of development at the moment, and let the society enter the track of linking development, and do not have to ups and downs.

In addition to preserving historical civilization, our study of tradition is more important in studying its impact on social development today and in the future. The past does not always belong to tradition. Many things in the past are just moments in the entire history. Whereas tradition is like human genes, it is repetitive and reproducible. It cannot be simply eliminated, and it is difficult to make the most thorough "break." Therefore, from the point of view of current influence, tradition can be defined as the value, behavior and norms that can affect the present or even the future and the historical conditions related to it.

This can be used to classify traditions: The first is a tradition of origin, that is, a tradition that can have a profound effect on the present and the future and that will work long term. This tradition has its origin for the development of modern society and constitutes the basic system for the development of modern society. It can also be said to be the historical ontology of the development of modern society. The second is a tradition of a secondary type, that is, a tradition that has historically produced and will have a certain influence on the present but does not have a basic role. The third is a derivative tradition, that is, a tradition that originates in history but is derived from the origin of tradition and exerts current influence.

When discussing the road to rural development in China, some people inherited the pre-reform people's communes as a tradition. In fact, although the People's Commune has existed for more than 20 years, in some respects, it is precisely out of line with China's original tradition and is even anti-traditional. For example, the "big two public" communes are precisely the long-term history of China. The traditional negation of "one small two private" households. To a considerable extent, the People's Commune is a form of rural social organization that draws on the Soviet Union and is a product of "taking Russia as a teacher". From this, it is necessary to further discuss Eastern society.

In the ideological world, since Aristotle, what has become popular is the dualistic worldview of the “East and West”. People call the world represented by Western Europe the "Western," and the world represented by Russia, India, and China is called "Oriental." East and West are two different worlds, have different histories and form different traditions. Apart from simplification, this kind of binary division also has a fatal problem that ignores or ignores the differences within the eastern society. In fact, both the Western world and the Eastern world have very different internalities. The Western world has differences in Britain, Germany, and France. The East, Russia, India, and China are very different. In some respects, the difference in the so-called Eastern World is no less than the difference between the East and the West. Therefore, to understand "Chinese characteristics", in addition to comparison with the Western world, it should also be compared with the Eastern world, especially with Russia, which has had a major influence on China's roads, and India, which is adjacent to China.

The current China is at a historical turning point oriented toward industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization. China's rural development path is also in the transition from a traditional agricultural society to a modern industrial society. This process is not an alternative or an alternative. It is neither possible to simply return to tradition nor to ignore tradition. A reasonable choice is Baron Moore: "Social Origins of Democracy and Autocracy," Trans., Topo, Zhang Dongdong, et al., Beijing: Huaxia Press, 1987, p. 2.

To the modern age, backed by tradition, respected traditions, and moved toward modernity. But first of all, we must make clear what is the origin of China's rural development and the resulting basic system.

Second, two kinds of oriental traditions: Village Community System and Household System In the view of modern social sciences, the unique geographical position has enabled the West to have a long-standing commercial civilization; while the East is dominated by farming civilization. However, the traditions of Eastern agricultural civilization also have different manifestations and types. Without understanding the differences between them, even subtle differences, they cannot fully and accurately grasp the influence of the Eastern agricultural civilization tradition on the later rural development path. The so-called poor balance, lost a thousand miles.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Western countries established a capitalist system based on private ownership and wage-based labor system through revolution, rapidly moving toward modernization; entering the 19th century, non-Western countries faced another challenge in the process of modernization: “Westernization "Still adhere to the traditional 'indigenization.' Russia was the first to face this major issue. This is because Russia is geographically the closest Eastern country to the West, and the second is that Russia was the first major eastern country to transform itself into modern civilization; It is because the Russian intellectuals who are in transition to modern civilization have begun to dig deeper into their own traditions in search of a development path that is different from that of Western countries. Among them, the most important traditional resource is that the West did not exist in Russia and existed in Russia for a long time. The spirit of the Russian village system.

The village community system has a long history. It originated in the primitive society and continued into the 20th century. Judging from the form, Russia's village community system is divided into three stages and three types: the first is the type of primitive villages in the natural growth stage; the second is the local village community constructed in the Tsarist Russia period; and the third is the state-built country in the Soviet period. Collective farms. Although these three types differ in their nature and content, institutional forms are interlinked. They all emphasize integrity, unity, and consistency. The same group is basically average. This characteristic continued until after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Otherwise, we find it difficult to understand the difficulty of implementing "land privatization" after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This shows that the village system is the basic system and origin of traditional Russian development. "Invading the village community is a violation of the special Russian spirit." 1 As a form of social organization, the village community has the following main characteristics: the land is “public” and maintains average ownership among the members through regular division of the village community; the national tax is paid by the village community and the village community passes the poverty Topping up the burden of flat sharing; the implementation of a combination of laborers, the village community to encourage joint farming; the village community through joint management meetings, emphasizing the collective standard. 2 The village community is not only a production organization and a social organization, but also a peasant spiritual community. Collectivism and egalitarianism are the basic principles and codes of conduct of the village community. Because of this, peasant villages and communities are also called peasant communes and have the characteristics of primitive communism shared, built, shared, and jointly managed.

The village community system is based on the collective form of the village community. A basic premise of this organizational form is that the collective community must have a collective personality authority. The periodical redistribution of land, the rich and poor of taxation, the mutual geese of labor, and enlightenment: "The rural commune, the tradition of reform and revolutionary village community, and the road to modernization in Russia", Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 1996, No. 103 pages.

Jin Yan, Su Wu, “Rural Commune, Reformed and Revolutionary Village Community Tradition and Russian Modernization”, p. 71*119.

The combination and the convening of members’ meetings for management require a strong personality authority that can represent the collective. If we say that the early authority was still in the village community, then it has become more and more superior to the village community, especially on the basis of countless villages and stands more powerful national authoritarian authority. In the eyes of Russian rulers, managing a large number of scattered individual farmers is much more difficult than managing them through a whole village community. Therefore, the Russian rulers have increasingly strengthened the integrity of the village community, restricted the individuality of the members, and strongly bound the peasants firmly in the village community. The village community became the social foundation of Russia’s authoritarian rule. With the development of the village community system, a system of serfdom has emerged. Compared with the serf system in western Europe, the serf system in Russia is the most extreme. In addition to human beings, the peasants must attach themselves to the lords. They must also attach themselves to the village communities and their personality authority in life and be closely monitored by the state. “The process of peasants' serfization is a process in which the territorial system and the village community system are firmly integrated. The essence of the peasants' serfs is the serfdom of the village community.”1 In the 19th century, Russia abolishes the system of serfdom, but the village community organizes this traditional resource. It is highly valued by Russian intellectuals and even over-excavated. They hoped to use the public ownership of the villages to resist the capitalist private ownership system that originated in the West and to leave Russia’s own development path, which led to populism. Populism advocates “going to the people” and believes that the village peasants are “born as socialists” and that Russia’s ability to develop a development path different from that of the West lies in its own village system that is not in the West. After a brief period of rural transformation and differentiation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, large-scale Soviet agricultural collectivization began in the 1920s. There are three forms of collective farms in the early period of rural collectivization: agricultural commune, cooperative farming, and agricultural labor; in the later period of collectivization, the labor mix is ​​used as a basic, even the only form, to make it easier for the state to harvest agricultural products and for farmers. control.

Another eastern country that has entered the world’s vision is India. India is also the first big country in which Western colonialism has entered the East. India is not only the birthplace of the ancient four civilizations, but also has its own unique institutional tradition. One of them is the original village system. As a native form of the village system, India and Russia are similar: the land is public, and the cultivated land is controlled by the village community; the village community is a basic taxation unit and has a high degree of autonomy. There is also a system of serfdom in India, but compared with the Russian system of serfdom in villages, India is represented by the village community caste system. As "a system of hierarchical compliance", the two kinds of surname systems cure and perpetuate the ranks of the people according to their kinship. The caste of high caste inherits a high level of occupation and status. The caste of a low caste adopts a low level of occupation and status. There is an insurmountable gap between them. This system more inhibits people's independence, initiative and creativity. Marx thus commented on the village community and caste tradition in India: the solid foundation. They made the human mind confined to a very small extent, became a superstitious taming tool, and became a slave to the traditional rules. It did not show any great works or historical initiative. "3 British colonialism had a great impact on the ancient village community system after entering India, but the tradition of the village community is still tenaciously retained. In the 20th century, India's spiritual leader Gandhi advocated the abolition of the caste system and was thus assassinated; but he In the struggle for independence, the village community was made the foundation of India, thinking that more than 700,000 villages were the basis of India, and the village community was precisely the species of Barton Moore: The Social Origin of Democracy and Autocracy, p. 309.

The fortress of the surname system is the basis of social organization that produces caste. Therefore, although the country abolished the caste system legally, the caste society still persists tenaciously. High caste people firmly restrict the low caste population to the village community land. If the village community exists, the caste system attached to it will remain. As Moore said: "The caste system has played a role in organizing the village community life at that time and now, and it constitutes the cell and basic unit of Indian society."1 As the ancient country of oriental agricultural civilization, there was a primitive communal system in early China. However, compared with Russia and India, the Chinese tradition of agricultural civilization has its own characteristics. The profound influence on China today is the free individual household system after Qin Shihuang, that is, "two thousand years are Qin system." The great merit of Qin Shihuang was not the construction of the Great Wall, but the formation of a system capable of continuously producing hundreds of millions of free and small households. As Mao Zedong said, rural communes based on the autocratic system mainly refer to Russia and India. He pointed out that “This kind of complete isolation between the various communes creates the same, but by no means common interest in the country, which is the natural basis of Eastern autocracy. From India to Russia, where this social form prevails. It always produces such an autocratic system and always finds its own complement in this autocratic system."3 If households, villages, and countries are divided into three levels of organization, Chinese households and countries are the most With strong organizational forms, village groups are relatively weak. In China, the sign of private ownership and the country’s development is the change from the past world to the “home country”. Household organizations have a long and solid foundation in China. Free individual household farmers are a long-term ideal form. The Tang Song’s ancient song, “Killing Songs,” describes: “I made the sunrise, and I entered the ground. I was digging and drinking, and ploughing the land and eating.” Dili’s relationship with me, the relationship, the household became the mainstay. In order to obtain tax revenue, when compiling an account, both the landowner and the farmer become the same “history of households”, and they are all citizens of the country. The peasants are free on the people and produce, manage and live independently.” Grain, free. “The name of the rural grass-roots social organizations in China has been changing. The Han Dynasty was the village, and the Ming and Qing dynasties were Baojia.

The function and authority of these grassroots social organizations are far less than those of Russia and India, and they do not form a complete village community system. The Chinese village is formed by a family of free farmers and has the characteristics of a “free man’s union”.

The famous comparative historian Moore said: "Chinese villages, like other countries, are the basic cells of rural society. However, compared with India, Japan and even some parts of Europe, the villages in China are obviously lacking in cohesion."

Compared with the traditional village traditions of Russia and India, the free and independent family of small farmers constitutes the core of the Chinese village society and is the foundation of the existence of the village society. The family system, which consists of a complete family system supported by strong custom and a complete household registration system supported by strong national administration, is the basic system of rural society in China or this Barrington Moore: "Democratic and Autocratic Social Origins, p. 255.

Barrington. Moore: The Social Origins of Democracy and Autocracy, p.165*166.

Source tradition. In Mr. Jin Yaoji’s view, “In traditional China, home is not only a reproductive unit, but also a social, economic, educational, political, and even religious, recreational unit. It is the basic force that sustains the condensation of the whole society. The content and characteristics of the one-household system and the village-based system are very different. The village community system has a one-item and oneness, emphasizing the integrity and the individual's dependence and conformity to the whole; the household system is dualistic and mixed, with more emphasis on individuality (non-Western natural individuals, but The relative independence and difference of the individual households and individuals as a whole. From the perspective of production relations and superstructure, the village system in Russia and India has the following typical differences from the household system in China: First, the village-owned property belongs to the village community, and the family-owned property belongs to the individual household; The taxpayer under the village community system is the village community. The taxpayer under the household system is the family household. Third, the village community under the village community system is the local self-government unit. It has administrative function and local authority, under the household system. Villages are natural villages formed on the basis of households, mainly family autonomy.

China's household system has not only a long history, but also profound influence. Fei Zhengqing commented: “China is a strong fortress of the family system and has thus gained strength and inertia.”2 In the current and future development of rural China, we must attach great importance to and deepen this basic system and Source-based traditions and careful determination of traditional institutional resources in the country can form a development path with Chinese characteristics. Whether "Chinese characteristics" is likely to be "characteristics of other countries" and the "Chinese road" is likely to be "a road to other countries." As mentioned above, in the discussion of academia in China’s rural areas in the 1990s, Qin Hui advocated that the Chinese rural community is a “great community standard” tradition, but this only emphasizes that China’s rural society is more strongly controlled by the state. It does not involve the basic points of rural society.

In fact, China’s “nation” is based on “household households,” and households are not completely coincident with the state.

If it is a "major community standard," it is easy to conclude that farmers are "national farmers." In the history of China, there are only "state officials" and "national workers". Even a highly nationalized people's communes does not recognize the "national peasants." Because of the lack of in-depth knowledge of China's rural social ontological issues, it is easy to see a commune that is similar to the village community as its own tradition, and misinterpret the characteristics of other countries as "Chinese characteristics."

3. Household management traditions and agricultural management organizations In China, households based on kinship have long been in a dominant position. They are the basic organizational unit of the entire society and the “cell” of Chinese traditional society. This has led to thousands of years of Chinese household management traditions.

Households are the most basic organizational units. This is the case throughout the world. In China, households have become a basic business organization system and have a core position. This is mainly determined by the following factors. First, the natural endowment is the basis for the existence of an organization. China is a country that naturally enjoys suitable farming, and suitable climate and soil conditions make it possible for households to produce. The joint work of the village system in Russia is obviously related to the cold weather conditions. The family, Jin Yaoji: From Traditional to Modern, Beijing: Renmin University of China Press, 1999, p. 24.

Fei Zhengqing: "The United States and China", translated by Zhang Lijing, Beijing: World Knowledge Press, 1999. The 21st independent production is very difficult. It also requires collective interdependence. The village system actually came from the era of collective hunting of early humans. Second, the system of inheritance of assets is the mechanism for the reproduction of organizational units. China's bid farewell to the primitive society is a change from "the world is for the public" to "the world is the home." China's implementation of the "separate family production system" household is the property distribution and succession. Adult men can evenly distribute and inherit family property, which leads to the continuous reproduction of small households. In China, the common assets of the village are not only small but do not assume the redistribution and inheritance function. Russia’s land property is owned by the village and the village community allocates land property, which results in personal dependence on the village community rather than the household. The caste system in India has made the caste families of almost no inheritance. However, "the caste system provides landless laborers with suitable occupations, ... the evaluation of their social status depends mainly on their work rather than on the basis of the amount of property," and the village community is therefore cohesive. Third, the tax system is the continuation of institutional units. As early as 2000 years ago, China established a unified centralized power. The country’s existence is based on the fact that households with agricultural financial land have become the country's taxation unit. The ancient Chinese government set up a special “hukou” account and finance. In China, “home” is a social unit “household”, which is the political unit of the state to organize the people and has political and social significance. Therefore, traditional Chinese finance is actually the finance of rural households. The government needs to protect and encourage household ownership. In Russia, the village community is a national tax unit, and individual farmers do not directly contact the country. 1 The positive tax is not good for the family, and the poor households are not rich. “2In India, low caste families have little or no tax-paying conditions. Fourth, awareness is the driving force behind the organization. Since the family is both an economic community and a political and social community, the Chinese’s family consciousness is particularly strong. The male surname is the authenticity of the family, and the family flourishes for the highest goal in life, such as “get rich,” “guangzongyao.” And under the Russian village system, think. 3 In India "as a labor organization, caste is a cause of poor farming in the countryside." 4 Therefore, if the Russian village community system is said to be collectivism, and India's village community system strengthens casteism, then the long-standing existence of Chinese household history is householdism, and household units are a long-standing tradition of China.

Household management in China is conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm of agricultural production. First, land is owned by households or households, which makes it possible for households to freely control their own products. The landlord can obtain land rent through the land, and the farmer can obtain as many production products as possible under reasonable conditions of rent, and the cultivator can obtain more products through his own efforts. Under conditions of close connection between production and remuneration, households may be able to improve their living conditions. Although being a “landlord” can only be achieved by a few people, it is only possible to obtain land. Thus, it also practises the unique "hard-working" quality of Chinese farmers: "Love the day when you are righteous, non-elderly Barrynton Moore: The Social Origins of Democracy and Autocracy," p. 169.

Jin Yan, Pang Wu, “The Rural Commune, the Reform, Revolutionary Village Tradition, and the Road to Modernization in Russia”, p. 76.

Barrington Moore: The Social Origin of Democracy and Autocracy, p. 275.

Hugh, non-stop, never die. “1 Montesquieu and Weber all gave extremely high appraisals to the diligence of the Chinese people.2 The village community system divided the land for several years, restraining the peasants' desire for more land, and limiting their enthusiasm. Second, the land is Household ownership or household management allows households to independently complete the entire production process and does not require external oversight, thus minimizing the costs of external supervision. Fei Xiaotong believes it is convenient and efficient based on rural surveys.” 3 For landowners, after renting land to farmers, they do not need to intervene in the production process. For the farmers of the direct producers, the production and management process is completely autonomous and “lazy”.

It is self-punishment that oneself may become hungry and bankrupt. However, in a village labor portfolio composed of a number of households, unless everyone has a very high degree of labor consciousness, 'laziness' is inevitable.

Household management has created a splendid Chinese agricultural civilization. Such as the famous historian Sun Daren said: “Without individual smallholders, there is no new era since the Warring States and the Qin and Han dynasties. There would be no new civilization ahead of the world that is compatible with this era.”4 However, when households manage to obtain economic benefits, It will also have unbalanced social consequences. One will have social differentiation. Different households will have different results because of their living resources and labor differences. Some will fall into poverty caused by little or no land. The second is the lack of necessary social security.

Household management causes households to become responsible units for their own life activities. Natural disasters and man-made disasters are completely self-sustainable by households and lack protection and support from society. Poor people with weak self-protection functions may therefore be trapped in tragic fate. Relatively speaking, the village system is like a shell. Although it inhibits free development, it can shelter wind and rain, provide village members with certain social security, and has a "safety Valve". 5 As a result, the household system has the diversified benefits and the lack of guarantees of “hard work”. The village cooperative system is an average and guaranteed “indolence” with no benefits.

Of course, the survival conditions of households under the conditions of traditional Chinese households cannot be confined to microscopic mechanisms. They should also be examined under the macro background. In general, the peasants of ancient Chinese society belonged to “universal poverty” or “difficult poverty”. The root cause of this kind of poverty is not only the micro-management mechanism, but at least three factors should be considered. The first is the contradiction between man and land. According to Marx, there are two forms of human production, one is material production, and the other is population production. The two have to be roughly balanced. However, in China, population reproduction is always faster than material reproduction, and land resources are always limited. Under conditions where there is no significant progress in productivity, there will inevitably be more conflicts between people and less land. Even if land ownership is in a state of equilibrium, it will be difficult to escape from poverty because the size of the land is too small. In the history of China, there are no landlords in many places, or the landlords have very little possession, and people are still in poverty, which can be described as “average poverty”. The second is the high degree of exploitation. China established the bureaucratic ruling system of the emperor very early. The operation of this system requires a lot of financial support, and its financial source is mainly agriculture. Normal households are subject to double deprivation of land rent and taxation, even if it is Fu Max Weber: "Confucianism and Taoism", translated by Wang Rongfen, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 1995, p. 115.

Fei Xiaotong: "Local Fertility System in China", Beijing: Peking University Press, 1998, p. 179.

Sun Daren: "Discussion on the Evolution of Chinese Peasants in the Historical Development Cycle of China", Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, Barrington Moore: The Social Origin of Democracy and Autocracy, p. 309.

Households also have to bear taxes.这种赋税既沉重又没有额度,很容易超出家户能承受的限度,从而造成反抗。事实上,中国历史上的农民起义不少是由地主领头或者参与的。其三是财产继承。如前所述,在中国家户体制下,财产继承实行平均主义的分家析产制。前辈积累的田产由于儿子的均分,容易很快就重新陷入贫穷状态。

可见,中国的贫穷状态与家户制有一定联系,但不是唯一原因,甚至不是主要原因。进入20世纪以后,现代取向的价值观对传统家户给予尖锐的批判,家户传统受到严峻的挑战。但即使如此,现实主义的政策也不得不尊重家户传统。孙中山先生提出“耕者有其田”家户则是“耕者”组织单位。以毛泽东为代表的中国共产党人实行土地革命和土地改革,将土地分给农民,其组织单位仍然是家户。民主革命时期实行的减租减息政策,目的也是为了调动农户的生产积极性。

中华人民共和国成立以后,土地改革将农村社会成员变成了平均占有土地的农户。当时的中国共产党人认为,土地改革以后的农民具有两个方面的积极性,一是个体农户发家致富的积极性,一是共同富裕的社会主义积极性。但从革命话语看来,个体农户具有私有性和落后性,与社会主义是格格不入的。为此,土地改革后很快进行对农业(主要是个体经济)的社会主义改造。而中国从来没有集体经济的传统,因此只能以最早实行社会主义集体化的苏联“老大哥”为榜样,认为只有“社会主义的集体农庄才是完全的社会主义”,①将“共同劳动,计工计酬,集中经营”

作为改造农村的蓝图。在这一蓝图下形成的人民公社体制与长期历史形成的家户单位传统实行了最彻底的“决裂”。人民公社体制下,土地等生产资料为公社所有,集体劳动,平均分配,公社成为国家的纳税单位“发家致富”不仅没有可能,更被视为获得产品。尽管有这种客观后果,但实行公社制的主观目的还是为了社会主义理想目标。因为在历史上,国家的力量远没有1949年后强大,照样可以获取大量产品和劳役。

公社制在对弱者的保障方面有一定成效,但严重后果是农民个体的自主地位下降了,压抑了生产积极性。著名的农村政策专家杜润生先生评论人民公社时说:兴趣和责任感,从而影响他们的生产积极性。“②他还认为,苏俄集体化的设想是针对俄国村社传统提出来的,”其愿望显然是含有一定的合理性的。但是要把它照搬到中国,就产生了'对象'上的差异“。③但与苏联的集体农庄有国家保护不同,中华人民共和国国家农业委员会办公厅编:《农业集体化重要文件汇编》(上),北京:中共中央党校出版社,1982年,第98页。

沈志华:《新经济政策与苏联农业社会化道路》,北京:中国社会科学出版社,1994年,杜润生“序”

中国公社的农民生存得依靠自己寻求出路。因此,自人民公社一成立,传统的力量就顽强地表现出来。公社体制不得不后退到“三级所有,队为基础”的经营体制,进一步则是“包产到户”不断兴起,只是未能突破体制框架。直到1980年代初,中国实行家庭经营,与家户单位传统相衔接。可见,公社制并不是中国固有的传统,恰恰背离了中国的本源型传统。家户传统不是简单的能够替代,更不是简单能够改革开放以来,家户经营体制显示出极大的活力。但是,以家户经营体制为核心的农村发展道路也受到了严重挑战。一是仅仅依靠农业的农民的生活状况未能得到根本改变。其显著标志是作为农村家户承包制改革旗帜的安徽省小岗村,被认为是“一夜之间脱贫,30年未能致富”。二是出现社会分化。农村社会由公社体制下的平均状态变为一个有贫富分化的社会。三是保障体系脆弱。对社会弱者的保障和救助因为人民公社体制的废除而受到弱化。

这一背景下,所谓的传统主义得到复活,主张恢复公社体制传统。如前所述,公社并不是中国特有的传统,在相当程度是“舶来品”。①更重要的是,将农村的现实困境完全归之于家户经营体制是不恰当的。首先,造成农村困境的人多地少矛盾没有消除。在人均耕地只有两亩的条件下,依靠农业的家户经营致富是困难的。

其次,改革开放以来,农民负担一度十分沉重,压抑了农民的农业生产积极性。再次,人民公社时期的社会保障依靠的是农业内部建立的,只是一种低水平的保障。

这种保障已无法适应社会大环境的变化和农民的需求,由此需要国家给予支持。新世纪以来,国家在农村实行免费义务教育、新型农村医疗、新型农村养老等,就是试图建立以国家为主的社会保障体系。因为农村发展一度出现的困境而简单否定家户体制,并主张向公社传统回归是缺乏充分根据的。

如果说公社制是以“现代”组织形式对家户经营传统形成冲击,而当今的现代农业再次对家户经营传统提出了挑战。显然,现代农业需要现代经营组织单位。作为传统的组织形式,家户经营一个最突出特点就是经营规模太小。没有规模就没有效益,没有效益就没有投入;没有投入也就无法扩大,甚至无法延续再生产。尽管改革开放以来,中国的农业综合生产能力大大提高,但家户的生产能力却相对低下,②这必然会影响中国农业的持续发展。因此,对于家庭经营能否适应现代农业生产存在不同的认识。一种主张以“公司”替代家户经营,一种主张固守家户经营。本文认为,家户经营传统在中国延续已久,家户单位这一组织外壳完全可以继承。这是由农业生产特性决定的。至今为止,农业生产仍然无法实行工厂化作业,毛泽东在兴办人民公社时曾将三国时代吃饭不要钱作为古已有之的传统资源。其实,这种现象只是道教的一种教义行为,而不是普遍性的制度行为。

徐勇、林冠《论农业生产能力与农户生产能力提高的非均衡性以社会化小农为分析仍然无法超越对自然的依赖。农业生产的自然周期性决定了忙闲不均,不同于可以不间断生产的工厂作业。因此,家户单位是节约型的农业生产组织,可以根据季节不同,灵活经营。作为分配单位,它可以不需要外部监督及由此而来的监督成本。

可见,即使是现代农业生产也需要从家户单位传统中汲取精华。当然,家户单位传统也需要赋予其新的生命活力。一是创造良好的外部条件,将有能力的农民吸引到农业生产中,提高家庭经营能力。二是家庭单位不再是孤立的生产经营单位,而应该成为整个现代农业生产链条中的一个环节。在这一过程中,家户单位传统获得新生,转换为现代农业生产组织。

从中国的过去、当下与未来看,农业生产出现了并将出现家户制、公社制和公司制三种形态。家户制是由来已久的本源型传统,是当下中国的基本经营制度。公社制作为一种“舶来品”在中国存续了20多年,在某些方面仍然产生着一定影响,其集体主义取向作为一种精神仍然成为某些人的美好记忆,但已无法复制和再生,特别是重新替代家户制。随着现代农业发展,公司将成为农业经营的一种重要组织形式,但在农业生产特性的制约下,它也无法替代家户体制。当然,这一切都取决于家户体制的提升,以适应现代农业的发展和新农村建设。家庭农场可能是将传统家户与现代农业结合起来的最佳选择。

四、农工商结合传统与农工商互补经济在漫长的农业文明岁月里,中国创造了世界上无与伦比的农业文明,同时又伴随着农民的普遍贫穷,存在着世界上最为突出的农民问题。造成这一历史悖论的原因很多,其中最为重要的原因之一是人多地少。呈几何级增长的庞大人口堆积在有限的土地上,人均占有的土地资源不断细碎化,所获得的产品也十分有限。

人们只能在有限的土地空间内寻求生存的可能,由此形成在家户基础上的农工商结合传统。

一家一户为单位、自给自足的生产方式是中国农业的基本生产方式。所谓自给自足,就是农村社会成员的基本生活物品主要、甚至完全依靠自己。要维系简单的温饱生活,除了农业生产以外,还需要手工业劳动,这就有了外的务工并以此获得劳务收益是农民生活的重要条件。特别是在缺乏土地等生产资料的家庭,劳动力处于剩余状态,需要通过出卖劳动寻求生路。首先是在本家户附近为大户帮工,其中有时间较短的“短工”也有长年累月为他人做工的“长工”。

这种务工尽管主要是农业劳动,但不是为自己的劳动,而是通过为他人劳动交换自己所需要的收益。当然,这种劳动收益取决于劳务供给。如果当地不能提供更多的劳务供给,便会出现进城或者到外地务工。如农忙季节专门从事割麦子的“麦客”

远走他乡寻求生存之道的“走西口'、”闯关东'、“下南洋”等。

除务工以外,经商也是农民获得收益的活动之一。这种活动最初或者普遍的是简单的产品交换。因为农民的许多日常用品是本家户难以生产和满足的,如作为生产用品的铁器、作为日常生活必需品的盐等,因此集市贸易成为农村普遍的经济活动,也是维系农民日常生活的必要条件。中国农村社会也被有的学者视为一个集市社会。①在此基础上,农民萌发了商业意识,一部分人脱离或者半脱离土地专事商业活动,有的甚至远离故土,如“走西口”“闯关东”

农业基础上的打工经济和经商活动在中国由来已久,人们并不只是固守土地和固守单一的农业活动。特别是这种农工商结合是建立在家户基础上的,是家户生产经营和生活延续的重要条件,是对家户农业经济的重要补充。中国的家户实际是一种农工商结合的生产和生活单位。农工商结合是中国家户制的重要特点,维系和推动着中国农业文明。

首先,农工商结合为农民提供了更多的生存机会,维持了家户经济基础。在古代中国,不仅人多地少,而且土地流动率高,人口占有土地极不均衡。除了部分自耕农可以勉强维持生计外,相当一部分农民缺乏、甚至没有生产资料。即使是有土地等生产资料的成员,也可能因为天灾人祸而陷入困境,甚至绝境。务工经商可以为农民提供更多的生存机会,特别是那些人多地少的家户,只有从事务工经商活动才能贴补家用,维持生计,在残酷的生存条件下寻得一条活路。所以,在中国,愈是人多地少的地方,愈是人多地少的家户,农工商结合,特别是工商活动就愈活跃,如中国东南沿海地带便是民间工商活动最活跃的地区。很难想象,如果没有工商活动作为补充,中国的家户制能够长期维系。

其次,农工商结合为农村人口发家致富提供了希望,成为家户发展的动力。

一般来讲,以劳务为主的务工活动和简单的经商活动收益十分有限,只能简单贴补家用,维持生计。但是,有些特殊的务工活动,特别是经商活动,可以获得较高的收益,甚至发家致富。在中国,许多地主得以成为地主,就是依靠从事工商活动积累的资本;纯粹依靠农业劳动购买田产、成为地主几乎是不可能的。而地主又可分为两类:一类是土地主,即纯粹依靠从土地上获得收益的地主;一类是工商业兼地主,即从事工商业活动并获得收益的地主。前者不仅收益小而且风险大,如果农业生产歉收或者绝收,地主也会陷入破产;后者不仅收益大而且风险相对小,因为有多种收益。因此,工商业地主成为地主经济的发展方向。这种发家致富的可能性,为人们的勤奋劳作提供了动力和示范。在中国,一方面是安土中国社会科学出施坚雅:《中国农村的市场和社会结构》,史建云、徐秀丽译,北京:重迁,故土难离;另一方面是许多人离土离乡,别妻离家,外出务工经商,一旦成功便可家族兴旺,光宗耀。可见,农工商结合为中国农村发展注入了活力,并进一步巩固了家户传统。

农工商的分工分业是一般规律,但不同国家有不同表现形式。与中国相比,俄罗斯恰恰是人少地多,辽阔的土地为人们提供了更多的生存机会。在俄罗斯农村发展历程中,也存在农业与手工业的结合。但在村社体制下,农业和手工业是在村社单位基础上结合的。在村社劳动组合中,有的人从事农业,有的人从事手工业活动,是一种专业化分工。人们从事农业和非农业活动所获得的收益没有太大差别。而在村社基础上的农奴制下,农奴为主人提供的劳务是无偿的,自然也是被迫的。由于生活相对平均且有一定保障,俄罗斯农民没有外出务工的冲动,“甚至不敢想象没有村社自己能否生存”。①而且,村社制也限制了成员外出务工经商,俄国统治者更是从法律制度上严格限制农民外出。事实上“农民的农奴化是通过剥夺农民的自由迁徙权、将其固着在领地(村社)上来实现的。”②因此,俄罗斯农村犹如静静的顿河一样,是一个相对静止的社会。

印度农村也存在农工商活动。但在村社种姓制下,村社成员是按照家庭种姓从事不同产业活动的,高种姓家族的人从事高级活动,低种姓家族的人从事低级活动。

本来,职业化分工有利于产业发展和生活改善。但这种种姓职业化分工的世代传递,决定了低种姓的人无法改变其悲惨命运,所获收益也十分有限。而且,高种姓的人不愿意也不允许低种姓的人离开村社外出务工经商。因此,低种姓的农民不可能通过非农业活动改变其命运,其生活状态犹如恒河一般是固定不变的。

农工商结合是中国农村家户制的重要组成部分,也是中国农业文明不断累积的动力源泉。但在古代中国,工商业活动空间有限,农工商结合毕竟是低层次的,绝大多数农民仍然处于贫困状态。因为如此,进入20世纪以后,家户制被视为落后的传统加以抛弃,并选择了集体化的道路,其方式则是极具俄国特色的公社体制。与家户制的农工商结合不同,公社体制下的农工商活动是在公社组织基础上的内部分工,类似于俄国村社的劳动组合的专业分工。无论是从事农业,还是非农业生产活动,都是以工分的方式取得相差不大的报酬,都缺乏生产自主性和积极性。在公社体制下,农村社会成员几乎没有外出务工的可能。由于国家实行统购统销体制,主要商业活动为国家所控制,家户个体的商业活动受到严格限制。在极左的“文化大革命”年代,集市自由贸易作为“三自一包”的“修正主义路线”受到批判,连农民卖鸡蛋以换取日常生活用品的活动都被视之为要割掉的“资本主义尾巴”。这极大地影响了农民正常的生活。

米罗诺夫:《历史学家和社会学》,王清和译,北京:华夏出版社,1988年,第64页。

但是,传统的力量是无限的,并会自己不断开辟前进的道路。在生存空间有限且有务工经商传统的东南沿海地区,家户个体性的工商活动从来没有停止。许多家庭内的一些成员通过外出务工做小买卖来贴补家用。出于生存压力,基层干部也默认这种活动。这种农工商结合的历史传统随着公社制的废除和家户经营制的兴起而复兴。这就是邓小平所说的:乡镇企业的异军突起。

改革开放以来,农工商结合的传统不仅焕发了历史活力,而且跨越到新的高度,形成农工商互补经济的农村发展道路。农村实行家庭承包以后,农民摆脱了饥饿状态,过上了梦寐以求的温饱生活,但农民的生活还不宽余。改革开放以后中国出现的“富裕村”都不是依靠农业致富的,且这类富裕村人口仅占中国农村人口的极少数。外出务工因此成为大多数农民家户的选择,也成为农户的重要收入来源。自1990年代以来,非农收入开始成为农户收入,特别是现金收入的主体部分。农工商结合传统不仅巩固了家户经营制,为家户经济带来了活力和动力,而且富裕了农民,促进了农村发展。中国数亿农民背井离乡在外务工,经历着千辛万苦,基本动力便是改善家庭经济状况。中国农民不仅进了城,而且出了国。许多农民家庭由地道的农户成为专门从事工商活动的专业户,有的迅速发展成为“农民企业家”而工商经济活跃的沿海地区也成为中国农村率先进入小康的地区。

根据马克思主义理论,小农经济由于其脆弱性,在市场经济条件下很难避免破产的命运。因为,市场经济是货币经济,而小农户是最缺钱的。他们在以实物为主的自然经济条件下面临的风险更小,在货币经济条件下面临的风险更大,贫富分化也更突出。这正是马克思主义经典作家希望改造小农经济的重要原因所在。改革开放以来,农民通过外出务工经商,进行自我“以工补农”成功地避免了大量家户陷入困境甚至破产的命运。而改革开放以来的中国农业发展,正是以一个个没有破产的家户为重要支撑的。

相较而言,俄国缺乏家户基础上的农工商结合传统。在当今,尽管俄国实行了较为彻底的土地私有化政策和比中国更高的国家补贴农民政策,但由于农业生产者缺乏以工补农和以工富农的传统和效应,因此农业生产和农村发展并不理想,与其丰厚的自然条件更不成比例。在印度,尽管大量农民开始脱离土地,但他们进城后仍然从事的是低级工作,收入也有限,并形成了一个个贫困者居住的'贫民窟“。

不容讳言,中国农村和农民仍然处于不发达和不富裕状态,愈来愈多的农民离开土地,农村出现“空心化”趋势。而要稳住农民,必须富裕农民。其中,要弘扬家户基础上的农工商结合传统,形成农工商互补经济。一是家户成员分工分业,一部分适宜非农产业活动的人从农业分离出去,将土地留给愿意从事农业活动的家庭成员种植,以扩大家庭经营规模。二是从各个层次将工商业活动产生的利润尽可能返还农业生产领域,以增加农民收入。

五、家户互助合作传统与农村合作道路1990年代,曹锦清在其《黄河边的中国》一书中提出中国农民“善分不善合”并由此引起了一场讨论。其实,中国农民并不是天生的“善分不善合”而是特别地注重互助合作的对象和范围。可以说,家户互助合作的“合”的传统与家户之间的“分”的传统一样悠久。

中国有着悠久的家户制传统,一家一户是基本的生产和生活单位。但是,家户并不是完全孤立的,即便是独处一地的单家独户,也会与外界发生联系,不可能生存下去的。只是在中国,家户之间的互助合作主要是在以家户为单位的家族范围内进行的。

家户互助合作的对象主要是家族邻里成员,是与本家户地域相近的人。农业生产是以土地为基础的,人们依土地而居,分散性是其重要特点。农村因此流行着多是在亲缘关系的基础上形成的,许多村庄的成员属于同一姓氏,有共同的先,村庄的名称往往都是由某一姓命名的。因此,农村社会实际是亲族社会。地域相近的人更多的是本家族的人,或者沾亲带故的人。

家户互助合作的基础是家族信任。互助合作意味着不同家户之间的共同活动,活动者相互之间信任是互助合作的基础。社会交往的对象可分为陌生人、熟人和亲人。其中,亲人的信任基础最为牢固。家族成员不仅地域相近,更重要的是血缘相同。家族社会除了共同利益以外,还有情感等因素。家户在互助合作中首先选择与自己血缘和地域相近的“亲戚”即所谓“亲帮亲,邻帮邻”。这种基于家族信任的互助合作成本是最低的。

家户互助合作的范围很广泛。在生产活动中有换工,农忙时你帮助我,我帮助你。日常生活中的互助更多,农村社会成员每逢生活中的“大事”如婚丧嫁娶,一家一户都不可能单独完成,需要他人,特别是亲戚的“帮忙”。农村社会成员遇到'天灾人祸“生计困难时,也会找亲戚帮助。家族之间的”帮忙“不会以赤裸裸的利益来算计,而是长期互相帮助的感情积累。即使地主也是族人,也要尽族人的义务,而且要为当地尽更多的道德义务才能建立起社会威望。只有那些城居地主才与农民是赤裸裸的利益交换。

家户互助合作的效果是彼此间能够获得增益。家户互助合作建立在一家一户难以完成或者完成不好的事情之上,互助合作的结果必然是彼此间都能够增加收益。

这种互助合作以家户为基础,以增加收益为目的,是一种双方自愿性的互助合作,没有外部的干预和压力。

正因为如此,中国农民有互助合作的积极性和历史传统。可以说,离开了以家户为单位的家族互助合作,中国的家户制是难以维

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