The process of disintegration of feudal natural economy

First of all, the cotton textile industry, a traditional cottage industry in China, is declining and separating from agriculture, namely "weaving" and "farming". "Men plow and women weave", that is, the combination of individual agriculture and cottage industry, is the main form of feudal natural economy and the foundation of feudal system.

After the Opium War, western capitalist countries dumped a lot of goods by virtue of the privileges gained by aggression and the advantages of high quality and low price of mechanical products. The quantity of goods exported to China increased by 3.5 times compared with that before the war, of which cotton textiles accounted for 70%.

Some villages specializing in textiles in the southeast coastal areas have been greatly impacted. "Songjiang cloth market halved" and the gradual bankruptcy of family handmade cotton textile industry caused the separation of weavers and farmers, which was an important symbol of the disintegration of feudal natural economy.

Secondly, agricultural production is further commercialized. After the Opium War, foreign businessmen bought a large number of agricultural and sideline products and local products from China, mainly silk and tea. The export of silk and tea from China stimulated the development of silk and tea production in China.

Foreign businessmen manipulated China's silk tea export trade, which made China's silk tea production serve the needs of the world capitalist market and become increasingly commercialized. The trend of commercialization of agricultural products induces landowners to change the purpose of agricultural production and have to face the agricultural product market and adjust the planting structure to increase their income, which rings the death knell for the disintegration of natural economy.

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Mao Zedong said: "The development of commodity economy in China feudal society gave birth to the seeds of capitalism. Without the influence of foreign capitalism, China will gradually develop into a capitalist society. "

Obviously, capitalist aggression is the primary reason for the disintegration of China's natural economy. After the Opium War, the foreign powers used the privilege of aggression to dump goods and plunder raw materials in China, which involved China in the capitalist market, and China's natural economy gradually disintegrated.

Secondly, the continuous expansion of the domestic market is the premise of the disintegration of the natural economy. After the Opium War, China's commodity economy got unprecedented development, the commodity circulation was unprecedentedly active, and the domestic market expanded, especially the proportion of handicrafts and agricultural products in circulation increased, which constantly induced the purpose of agricultural production to change from natural economy to commodity economy.

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