The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27

These are some of the considera-
lions which show how complicated the
situation has become. On the sur
face it would appear to be simplest to
solve the question as follows: Since
there is no war at the present mo-
ment, since it is impossible to that
the slogans of the proletarian state
should contradict the slogans of the
Communist Parties, since there is no
doubt that enormous masses of the
people would support the slogan of
peace, and since it is just here that
the connection lies between the line
of the proletarian republics and the
slogans of the broad masses, then the
slogan of peace should be made the
central slogan for all Communist
Parties. 1t would appear as this
method of dealing with the question
would be most suitable at the given
moment. And yet this is not so.
How should we approach the ques-
ton of the central slogan for all
Communist Parties, for the whole
Communist International In order
to give an adequate answer to this
question, we must find out the hard
est knot in the present situation. The
knottiest problem of the moment is
in the relations between Great Britain
and the Soviet Union, and in the at
titude taken by the imperialist front
towards the Chinese revolution. The
driving mechanism actuating all
these international ENGAGEMENTS, all
the multifarious conflicts, blockades,
armed raids, ETC., is to be found at
the present time in China. The de-
velopment of the Chinese revolution
is the dynamic force throwing out
of balance everything upon which
/ Soviet Union was depending for
it's pause for breath. The decided
advance of constructive. socialism in
the Soviet Union comedies with a.
rapid development of the Chinese
revolution, development threaten
ing to overthrow capitalist stabili-
sation. 1t is in China and the Soviet
Union that the knot of international
relations is drawn the highest.
The Chinese Communist Party is
exposed to the direct fire of it's an
tagonists. Can we then put forward
the slogan of peace as the leading
slogan for the Chinese Communist
Party? At the present moment the |
Chinese Communist Party is faced
with an emergency demanding
powerful fighting spirit, an offensive
spirit, l might almost say, the
strongest possible military revolu-
tionary spirit. Should the Chinese
Communist Party. the left Kuomin-
tang, the corresponding military or
CARNATIONS, ETC., support the slogan /
of peace, this would be tantamount !
to slogan of peace with the traitor
Chang Kai-shek, a slogan of peace
with the imperialists, etc. And this
at a moment when the military
struggle against the feudal regime
and the imperialists is a constituent
of the revolution still in the initial
process of its development.
Should we proclaim the slogan of
peace as central slogan, we should
thus find ourselves in the position
of advancing a slogan supposed to
be suitable for all Communist Par
ties and especially for the Chinese
Communist Party in its present
capacity as outpost, and yet having
the actual effect of dispensing the /
forces of one of the most important /
of the Communist Parties. But the i
whole political situation demands
that precisely this Party should not
cry for: peace with the feudal
.ords!" "peace with Chang Kai-shek!"