The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-13

was fulfilled. Wuhan is fighting
Marking and Pekin, and with Marking
against Pekin. This formal joint ma
ture of the aims which sprang up aft
er the split is weighing on the con-
science of individual generals of the
Kuomintang and can at the favorable
moment be used as the occasion for
the formation of a block with Chang
Kai-shek and for further treachery
against the revolution.
The possibility and the danger of
new treachery is made greater by the
specific forms of the Chinese struggle.
We have said and written more than
once that the popularity of the Chi
nese revolution consists in the fact
that each of the class groups partici-
pating has it's own state apparatus,
! it's own army and government. This
popularity is an historical fact. 1t
has it's great advantages and its great
disadvantages. The chief disadvan-
tage is that the old administrative and
military apparatus was not destroyed
by the revolution in the beginning, but
set up again as revolutionary appa-
ratus. The old officials and the Of
ficers' corps are all firmly in their
jobs and even in the ranks of the
Wuhan troops they represent a great
force which can come out at any mo-
ment even on the territory of the WI
han government as conference.-the
The insurrection in Changsha is the
hest proof of this.
The open and logical counter-revo-
luton of Chang Kai-shek must be
met by a no less decided and logical
revolutionary policy on the part of
the Kuomintan6 For or against the
agrarian revolution For or against
the peasant movement? For or
against the working class organiza-
tions? All these questions permit, in
4 the present moment of development,
no half measures, no vacillation, but
demand decision. Further, these ques-
tons cannot be answered with words,
but with deeds.
The development of the agrarian re-
volution, the development and the or
ganization of the mass movement of
the workers and peasants is the only
way to victory. The stress placed up
on the significance of the agrarian
problem by no means pushes the mill
tary tasks of the Wuhan government
into the background But to oppose
the military and the political tasks of
the Kuomintang to each other is not
only basically false, but it supplies
grist to the mill of the counter-revo-
luton. To speak of spread of the
revolution and only afterwards a
deepening OF the revolution" leads OBJ
jectively not only to the isolation of
the Kuomintang from the worker and
peasant masses, but sustains the ideol-
ogy of those vacillating elements
which still regard Chang Kai-shek as
an ally in the struggle against Chang
Tso-lin. But the other extreme, the
stressing of the political tasks of the
Kuomintang, as our oppositionalists
do it, and separating them from the
military tasks, would not only lead to
a fatal policy resulting in the defeat
OF the revolution, but it would also
give Chang Kai-shek material for
agitation and assist him to represent
himself as the centre for the struggle
against the northern militarists.
The political and military tasks of
the Chinese revolution can not be re-
garded separately. Without support
ing itself upon the masses, without or
ganizing the masses, without arming
the masses, the Kuomintang cannot be
victorious in the struggle against the
imperialists and the northern militar-
lists and Chang Kai-shek. The lack of
understanding for this fact amongst
various petty bourgeois elements in
the leadership of the Kuomintang, the
characteristic fear of petty bourgeois
leaders for the masses must be broken,
The historic significance of the Chi
nese proletariat and it's Communist
Party consists at the present moment
IN the fact that the pressure of the
masses, the pressure of. the lower Sec
tons is being utilized and organized
that the zig-zag line of the Kuomin-
tang is being changed into decisive
revolutionary line.
To take the vacillations of the lead
ers of the radical bourgeoisie as a
ground for a breach with the Kuo-
mintang, and self-imposed isolation
as our oppositionalists do, would be al
the present stage Of development to
abandon practically any active par5ici-
patton in the broad revolutionary
movement of the masses. The task of
the proletarian revolutionaries ii
China is to overcome the right-wine
deviations and to lead the peasantry
and by no means to isolate themselves
from the town petty bourgeoisie.
The development of the agrariar
revolution has created a situation ir
which only the proletariat can seize
the hegemony of the national demo.