"Peasant" was the subject of land property-rights in revolutionary base areas. Different from "farmer" with its reference to the occupation

"peasant" in revolutionary base areas didn’t involve all subjects engaged in farming. "Rich peasant" was not "peasant"

and "farm laborer" was not only "worker"

but also "peasant" . But the "new rich peasant" in areas where land allocation already took place was regarded as "well-to-do middle peasant" and belonged to "peasant" in the period of Liberation War. The differentiation of "peasant" from "rich peasant" and "worker" was based on Marxist theory. Agrarian policies empowering rights to "peasant" in essence allocated arable land according to the degree of labor. Such experience from the revolutionary base areas demonstrated the possibility of property ownership based on substantive principles

which provides references for thinking on the collective ownership of rural land today.