Today, eighty-one years ago, on August 31, 1944 (July 13, 1944) Mao Zedong talked about the basic issues of the new democratic society. On August 31, 1944, Mao Zedong in a letter to Zhang Qing, President of the Constitution of the Liberation Daily newspaper, pointed out the fundamental issues of the new democratic society. Mao Zedong pointed out that the basis of the new democratic society is the factories (the social factories, the public and private) and the cooperatives (including the labor force), not the decentralized individual economy. The decentralized individual economy ¨C family agriculture and household handicrafts ¨C is the foundation of the feudal society, not the foundation of the democratic society (the old democracy, the new democracy, socialism, in general), which is where Marxism is distinguished from