Abstract: The rural social reorganization of mutual-aid teams, cooperationalization, and state monopolization of purchase and sales in the 1950’s produced the coexistence reality of resistance and punishment. During the campaign for mutual-aid cooperation and the implementation process of the policies to monopolize purchase and sales by the state, the resistance might have partially reflected peasants’ everyday ethics. When inspected from the perspective of social engineering and governing, resistance would be likely to evolve into disruption only to incur formal punishment. Totalistic governance combined with village traditions, politicized punishment, and frequent resistance became the basic logics in the rural politics and legal practice in that time.

Key words: resistance, punishment, crime, order of the Property Law, historic practice