The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
BY Joseph Stain

February revolution in 1917 the Menshevdk and
social revolutonaries were also petty bourgeois
parties and to a certain extent revoutionares Does
this that the future revolutionary power in
China will be a social revolutionary Menshevist
power? No, it does not mean this Why? Because
the socialrevolutionary Menshevist power was
imperialist power, while the future revolutionary
power in China must be al antiimperialist power
This is the fundamental difference. The Macdonald
government was actually labor" power but it
at the time imperialst for it was based the
maintenance of England's mperialist power, for in
stance in India and Egypt AS compared with the
Macdonald government the future revolutionary
power in China will have the advantage that it will
be an antiimperialist power What is important lie
not the bourgeoisdemocratic character of the Can
ton government which forms the nucleus of the fu-
ture pan-Chnese revolutionary power; the most i'm
porant thing is that this power is anti-imperial-
list power and be nothing else that every ad-
of this power is blow aimed at worldimperi-
asm and is therefore stroke in favor of the
lutionary world movement. Lenn right when
he said that, if in former times before the begin
ming of the epoch of the world revolution national
movements for freedom were part of the general
democratic movement, now after the victory Of the
Soviet revolution in Russia, and since the beginning
of the epoch of world revolution national movements
for freedom are part of the proletarian world
hutton
This popularity was not taken into consideration
by Comrade Milf
China will, in its character, resemble the power
which spoken of in our country in 1905, l. e.,
dictatorship of the proletarat and the peasantry,
but with the distinguishing feature that it will be
predominanty anti-imperalist power It will be
power of transition to a non-capitalist or, to be
exact, to socialist development of China.
This is the direction in which the revolution in
China is likely to develop. This path of develop
ment which the revolution will follow, will be facili
tated by three circumstances; firstly in that the
point of the revolution in China, a national
luton for freedom will be directed against imperial
ism and its agents in China, secondly in that the
large bourgeosie in China is weak, weaker than the
national bourgeoisie in Russia in 1906 which
facilitates the hegemony Of the proletariat, the
leadership of the proletaran party as against the
Chinese peasantry; thirdly in that the revolution
in China will develop in circumstances which make
it possible to make Of the experience and the
aid of the victorious revolution in the Soviet Union
Whether this method will with certainty lead to
victory, depends many circumstances. One thing
is clear, that it is the chief duty of the Chinese
Communists to fight to prepare the way for the
development of the Chinese revolution
From this may conclude what is the chief task
OF the Chinese Communists in the question of their
relations to the Kuomintang and to the future revo
utionary power in China 1t is said that the Chinese
Communists ought to secede from~the Kuomintang
This is pure folly, comrades 1t would be the greatest
mistake for the Chinese Communists to leave the
Kuomntang. The whole course Of the Chinese revo-
luton, its character its prospects undoubtedly in
dictate that the Chinese Communists ought to re-
main an the Kuomintang and intensity their work
in it. But can the Chinese Communist Party take
part in the future revolutionary government? 1t not
only can, it must The course of the revolution in
emma its character, its prospects, speak eloquent
iy in favor OF the Chinese Communist Party taking
part In the future revolutionary government OF
China This is one of the necessary guarantees for
the hegemony OF the Chinese proletariat becoming
concrete reality.
g. The Peasant Question in China.
THE fourth remark concerns the question Of the
peasantry In China. Comrade Mn believes that