The Exploration of Socialist Agricultural Cooperatives from The Perspective of New Economy

Abstract

Nowadays, under the fierce merger and competition in the agricultural market, Marx 's historical assertion of " the demise of small farmers " has been fulfilled. However, under the historical needs of building socialized mass production, how to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor and solve the " three rural " issues since the reform and opening up at the same time has become the biggest problem. As all forms of public ownership, agricultural cooperatives are an important part of China 's social economy with public ownership as the main body. It has decisive advantages in resource integration, docking market, promotion technology and other aspects. As a form of production, the cooperation and collectivization in the field of agriculture have great prospects in promoting agricultural modernization, industrialization, increasing farmers ' income and driving regional industrial economic development. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the feasibility of agricultural cooperatives as a solution to the " three rural issues " in the new era by combining Marx and Engels ' vision of rural collective economy, the historical practice of agricultural cooperatives and the current objective conditions and policy support.