The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-23

which the fight is taking are proved by the very
fact that more than 5000 peasants were murdered
in the province of Hupeh in the months of May and
June; the troops of the landowners have murdered
about 1000 functionartes of the Peasant Union in
the territory of the National government.
However furiousy the rabble of officers and mobiles
mag rage, even large armies cannot occupy vast
territories in which the flame of the peasant revolt
will inevitably flare up The objective tasks which
the revolution has set itself, will not be promoted an
iota by the shooting of hundreds or thousands nav
of tens of thousands of peasants The Liberal coun-
ter-revolutionaries are not capable of finding even
half-soutOn to the peasant question: the agrarian
question: and this fact leads them on to an newt
able defeat, however great may be the partial vic
tories they carry off against the revolutionary peo-
pie
The following fact necessarily belongs to the pic
ture the desperate the fight of the bourgeoise
against the masses of the people becomes the sooner
will the bourgeoise throw itself into the arms of
the imperialists and implore them for help The
more rapidly, on the other hand the bourgeoisie
squanders the remains of its political capital the
faster 1t will rush towards it's defeat the more
rapidly will it become evident that consistent ma
tona fight for freedom in China can only be waged
against the bourgeoisie
Another question may arise, that of the policy of
the Soviet State. The question may be asked Is
IL essential that the Soviet State should renounce
all connections with the Marking government?
This question must of course be answered in the
negative None but the poorest politicians and ex-
tremey naive" persons imagine that the nature of
the proletarian state is such that it has absolutely
no connections with capitalist milieu Certain rela
tons are indeed desirable No reasonable person has
suggested abolishing" completely the institutions
OF Soviet diplomacy and the foreign minister for the
sake of the so-called purity of our principles IF
however this Soviet state has its representatives in
the bourgeois countries of the west and east if it
maintains relations with the feuda state of Marshall
Chang Tsolin, if it has its representatives in the
fascist paradise" of Signor Mussoni there can be
no reason why it should forego relations with the
Marking government. These customary forms of
connections should be kept up.
Still more! If Soviet diplomacy is obliged to take
into account the relative contradiction of interests
of the mperiast powers in certain directions it is
all the bound to take into consideration the
antagonism between the Liberal claimants to the
unity of China and their imperialist partners, both
of whom, it is true, plumber China without regard
to the form of government"
The practical distinction between the Comintern
and the Soviet government is so absolutely clear
in this respect, and we believe we have explained it
in so popular way, that even Chamberlain could
understand it. In its diplomatic and trade relations
the proletarian state refuses to be guided in any
way by the point of view that it should approve of
the policy of the capitalists the feudal expofters
The Communist International however conducts
neither diplomatic nor trade relations with "other
powers" 1t directly organizes the revolution.
Let us return to the question of the policy of
the Comintern. Our violent opposition who all the
time has been Indignant" and "enraged" and has
protested against the slogan of secession from the
Kuomintang being unjusty attributed to them, now
openly declares that it demands this secession