The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-09

report of the 9th August, 1920
Continuation
20. The Right deviation, of which
the leaders of the C. P. of China
were guilty in spite of the instruc-
lions of the Comintern, is based up
on an entirely wrong conception OF
an aDtagOnim between the national
and the agrarian revolution. The
representatives of this deviation as
sumo permanent relations between
the fundamental class forces OF
Chinese society; they do not grasp
the complete necessity and Inevitable
ftv of a development of class antag-
0nisms within the formerly united
national revolutionary front, nor do
they comprehend the complete lnevl-
liability of the resultant regrOuplngs
Of the classes, of the struggle be-
tween the bourgeoisie and the pro-
,euariat for the hegemOny in the ma
tional emancipation movement, the
inevitability of the transformation OF
the bourgeois revolution into bour-
geois-democratic revolution, and the
prospect of the bourgeois democratic
revolution growing into a socialist
revolution. In the last resort they
deny the class struggle standpoint,
and hence slide unavoidably down the
road to Menshevism. The Joint
PIenum of the c. c.. and the c. c. C.
is now in a position to state with
satisfaction that this Right deviation
in the leadership of the Chinese
brother Party has now been liqui-
dated, and the policy of the leader
ship corrected.
2. The Trotzkyist point of view
seeks its formal basis in an analogy
with the revolution in Russia in 1905,
when the BoIsheviki fought deter
minedly against an understanding
with the liberal bourgeoisie, which
was advocated by the Mensheviki
The gravest error of the Trotzkylst
standpoint is the fact that Comrade
Trotzky and his adherents (Comrade
Zinoviev, etc. do not grasp the fun
damental difference between an I'M
perialist country and revolution in a
country bearing the banner of the
fight against imperialism. Just on
this difference Lenin wrote as fol-
lows:
what is the most important,
the main idea of our theses? The
difference between oppressed and
Oppressor countries. We emphasize
this difference, ignored by the II.
International and bourgeois de-
mocracy. It is especially important
for the proletariat, and for the
Communist International, to ascer-
tain the actual existing economic
facts, ana to take concrete reah
ties as the point Of departure for
the solution of all colonial and Ia
tional problems, and not abstract
principles" (Lenin. Vol. XVIII.
D. "a Lenin writes further:
"The Communist international
must make temporary agreements,
and even alliances, with the bour-
geois Gemocracies Of the colonies
and backward countries. But it
must not amalgamate with them;
it must retain the independence Of
the proletarian movement itself, in
its most primitive form" (Vol.
XIX. p. 270)
And finally:
owe Communists must and will
support the bourgeois emancipa-
ton movement in the colonial coun-
tries only in such cases where
this movement is really revolution
airy, and where its representatives
will not prevent us from enlght-
ening and organizing the broad
masses Of the peasantry and the
exploited in the spirit of revolu-
ton"
We see that Lenin's standpoint diff
fers from that Of Trotsky. Trotzky's
standpoint IS a gross distortion Of
Leninism, based upon a flat disre-
gard of the differences between the
countries of Imperialism and the
colonies; this method is extremely
characteristic Of the social demo-
cratic deviation.
%. The characteristic fundamental
of the line taken by the Comintern
consists of the analysis of the vari
Gus stages of the revolution and of
the various class groupings. The
Comintern was in favor of support
ing the national bourgeoisie in China
during the period of the developing
revolution, at the time when. the
bourgeoisie was still revolutionary,
that is: l, whilst it was carrying on
real struggle against Imperialism;
2, SO long as it did not prevent the
COMMUNISTS from educating the
working and peasant masses IN the
spirit II revolution, forming reyolu-
tionary workers and peasants or
CARNATIONS; 3, so long as it did not
prevent the formation, consolidation,
and expansion Of an independent
Party Of the Communist proletariat
These were the conditions during
the period Of Canton and the North
orn campaign. up to the detection of
Chang Kai Shek His treasury was
tfs outwa.d expression OF the defec-