After the communist victory in its civil war, china embraced an economy wherein private property and private ownership of capital were abolished. various forms of wealth were made subject to state control or to workers' councils. individual liberty was subordinated to general welfare. this is an example of:

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is