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


and Chang Tso-lin and at the same
time against the bourgeoisie and
Chang Kai Shek. One part of the
radical and petty bourgeoisie, which
has remained in the Left Kuomintang
and in the Wuhan government, de-
clared war against Chang Kai Shek,
and enabled the Communist Party to
continue work The Communist
Party had to make use of this pos
sibility, in order to organize the ode
fence against the Cavaignacs" and to
mobilize the masses.
The development Of the class
struggle and the pressure exercised
by the imperiaIists led, however, to
fresh regrouping of forces. The
majority Of the Wuhan government
and Of the leaders of the Left Kuo-
mlntang deserted the revolution, and
the suppression of the workers and
peasants movement began. This
stage again brought with it a CORE
spending change in tactics and slo-
gans: Withdrawal from the Wuhan
government, declaration of war by
the Communists against this govern
ment, which had ceased to be really
revolutionary"
%. During all the stages of this
development the Comintern, which
had rightly foreseen the transition
from one stage to another, consid-
cred 1t necessary to prepare the
masses for this transition. The Com
intern considered it to be not only
necessary for the independent Com
munist Party of China to work with
the utmost energy, but attached much
Importance to a far-reaching criti-
cism of all the vacillations of the
former allies of this Party, including
the extreme Left, and to a systematic
/ preparation of the forces of the
Party itself, the mass organization
OF armed forces, ETC., the formation
OF suitable points of support, giving
| the workers, peasants and city poor
the greatest possible guarantee for
the further development and deepen
ing of the revolution. The develop-
ment OF the agrarian revolution. the
seizure of the land by the peasants
on their own initiative, the develop
ment of the labor movement the
armlng Of the workers and peasants
the characterization of the Kuomin-
tang and removal of its vaciIlating
leaders, these were the main slogans
Of the Comintern.
81 =
"A. The Comintern drove the rnvo-
luton forward But at the same
Cifne 1t was opposed to leaps over
stages of revolution which had not
oeen properly passed through. It
/ rightly condemned the Withdrawal
from the Kuomintang, a mass organi-
zatlon, under conditions tantamount
TO delivering the Kuonintang over
INTO the hands of the Riqht and
lSoIating the Communists from tbo
masses of the Kuomintang. It was
Lightly opposed to the slogan of the
0oVlets at a time when this SLOGAN
would nave signified a leaning over
Tne Wuhan government and the left
huomlntang whilst these were still
pursuing a revolutionary policy in
the above sense of the term. At Tho
same time the Comintern energet;-
caiy Fought against all Right devia-
(lghtly opposed to the slogan of the
~ I. OF China, who sacrificed +bo
interests Of the agrarian revolution
and OF the labor movement to tbe;Y
TyacIlIatlng allies, and within the q
T. .. Y. itself, where some onnoei
cIonal the3oreticians preached per
IgcI apology for the bourgeoisie
lhadek with his Workers and Peas
anus government" of Canton. otc \
or developed extremely opportnnief
incomes on the Chinese revolntio,,
Trotzky). VI Oohfaoe
20. If the Chinese revolution bas
suffered a severe defeat, in snito 't of
Inc correct tactics of the Cono,,,u,,iS+
International, this is due in the first
place to the relations of class foroos
ooCh IN the country itself and in
ternatlonally, This defeat is f,,r+ha,.
explained by the circumstance that
the masses of the workers and meas
anus nave not yet had sufficient +iroe
70 organize forces powerful enough
10 enable them to achieve vic+oT,,
over the united or siYnultaneo,s1I,
proceeding forces of the enemy. oyyo,,
the forces of foreign imner;alis,,, -
1ne teudal elements headed bv Chang
$50 Lin, and of the counter-revoI,,,
tlonary national bourgeoisie; finally
by the fact that the working class
IS not yet strong enough to form
strongly organized Communist
mass Party. On the other hand II
must be acknowledged that the c, p
OF China, in Systematically rejecting
the instructions of the Comintern
partially bears responsibility for the
defeat of the working class and the
peasantry in China.
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