Page "Socialist law" Paragraph 20

There have been a number of proposals to reform this system and they have tended to be in the direction of fully privatizing rural land for the alleged purpose of increasing efficiency.

These proposals have usually not received any significant support, largely because of the popularity of the current system among the farmers themselves.

There is little risk that the village committee will attempt to impose a bad contract on the farmers, since this would reduce the amount of money the village committee receives.

At the same time, the farmer has some flexibility to decide to leave farming for other ventures and to return at a later time.