The daily worker., 1927-01-15
THE PROSPECTS OF THE REVOLUT1C

military power but above all IN chat one inperialsts
have the power OF disposal over the main threads
OF industry IN China. the railways the factories the
mines, the banks etc. The result Is that the Ques-
tons OF the struggle against foreign imperialism
and its Chinese agents play predominant part In
the Chinese revolution. This Is exactly what links
the Chinese revolution directly with the revolutions
Of the proletarians OF all countries against mperi
aliSm.
Another popularity Of the Chinese revolution arises
out Of this popularity and that is that the national
large bouTgeoisie in China is extremely weak much
weaker than the Russian bourgeoisie at the
time OF 1905. This Is easy to understand. the
main threads Of industry are gathered in the hands
uf foreign imperiasts the national large bourgeoise
Of China cannot but be weak and backward. In this
respect Comrade Mff is quite In the right when he
re1parks that the weakness OF the national bosr-
geoisie in China Is characteristic symptom of the
Chinese revolution From this results that the part
OF intiatoC and guide of the Chinese revolution the
part of leader of the Chinese peasantry must In
evitably get into the hands Of the Chinese proleta
riat which is better organized and active than
the Chinese bOurgeOisie.
Neither should the third popularity of the Chinese
revolution be overlooked; 1t is that in addition to
China, the Soviet Unions exists and is developing
the revolutionary experience and help of which can
not but facilitate the fight of the Chinese pnoleta
riat against imperialism and against the reudal
mediaeval remains in China.
These are the fundamental pecularities OF the
Chinese revolution which determine its character
and its trend.
2. Imperialism and ImperaIist Intervention in
China.
FNHE first defect od the theses before us is that
they avoid or underestimate the question of i'm
perialst intervention in China. If We read the
theses correctly, we might imagine that there is at
present in China no actual mperalst intervention,
that there is nothing but struggle of the North
against the South Of group Of generals against
another group of generals. We apt to under
stand under intervention a condition In which for
edgn troops march into Chinese territory and this
does not take place, then there Is no Intervention.
This is serious error comrades, intervention rs by
10 means exhausted by the entry OF troops, and the
entry of troops Is by no an essential charac
terstic of intervention In the present circumstances
ries the direct entry OF foreign troops might
number of protests and stir conflict, in
tervention has assumed elastic character and
q more masked form In the present circumstances,
imperialism prefers 20 intervene against the revOlu
ton by organizing civil within the dependent
country by financing the forces
against the revolution by moral and financial sup
port its Chinese agents. The mperiasts tried 10
represent the fights of Denekin and Kolschak, Yu-
denitch and Wrange against the revolution in Rus
Ba as an exclusively internal struggle. But we all
knew and not we alone but the whole world knew,
that these counter-revolutonary generals were
backed by the fmperialsts OF England and America,
France and Japan, without whose support serious