The agricultural reforms in the People's Republic of China, generally referred to collectively as the `baogan daohu' system represent the genesis of ancient class relations in agricultural production. By providing the farmers with use rights to the means of production, control over the production process, and direct appropriation of the output and surplus from production, the `baogan daohu' system propagates a society of ancient farmers. While the `baogan daohu' embodies the necessary conditions for a variety of class relations, it forms the "rules of the game" and the social relations which allows the rural population to engage in "self-exploitation" for the indefinite future. In addition, not only does the "baogan daohu" system provide for the maintenance of ancient class relations, but simultaneously contains the "seeds" for the development of capitalist exploitation and the promotion of communist class relation in rural China.
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