The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
THE CAPITALIST WORLD AND
REVOLUTIONARY CHINA
BY EUGENE VARGA.
SECTION ONE.

THE capitalist world with Great Britain at its head
is now actually carrying out armed Intervention in
southern China This the real state of affairs, whether
formal declaration of war has ensued or not III
warships of the imperialst powers the largest fleet
assembled in Chinese waters have been anchored
off Shanghai since the middle of April The embarked
foreign troops belonging to the various mperalist
powers aggregate several tens of thousands Hestat
ngy, reluctantly with countless reservations the i'm
peralis powers follow the lead of Great Britain in this
policy of intervention. But they do follow it. The
warshps Of the United States Joined in the lombard
ment of Marking. Great Britain France, Italy, the
United States and Japan acted in in protesting
at Hankow against the shootngs in Marking All the
protocol powers" gave their consent to the raid
the Soviet embassy at Picking.
But yet the imperialst powers not openly at
with China they at the time of the Boxer re-
beion. They hide behind the reactonary Chinese gen.
erals them and provide them with money They
do not intervene with their naval artillery unless the
protection Of their nationals" be put forward
an excuse. In spite of the momentary reverse,
dictionary China has become power and the imperial
lists hesitate to declare war openly The differences be
tween their interests moreover great that the
united front existing at the present merely
the outcome of long deliberations and clever British
maneuvres and is liable to fall apart any day.
The and pronounced "non-capitalistic de-
velopment of the Chinese revolution forces the British
bourgeoisie the hopeless attempt to crush
the Chinese revolution by force of arms and compel
the other mperiat powers to second Great Britain in
this enterprise.
The Chinese revolution has various aspects in keeping
with the fact that practically all classes the Chinese
people-wh the exception of the feudal lords and the
reactonary military clques-are participating in it.
Taken whole the Chinese revolution is an anti
mperiast movement of emancipation. AS such it aims
at the abolition of the unequal treaties and the achieve
ment of political and economic independence with an
independent customs and taxation polcy) In regard
to these aims, all classes of the Chinese people are
unanimous.
Within this general anti-imperiaist movement of the
entire Chinese people, however, the movement differs
according to the different classes participating in it. We
can distinguish the following main tendencies:
al The Chinese revolution is partially a bourgeois
movement, aiming at the legal equality of the native
with the foreign bourgeosie, which the founda-
ton of independent, united bourgeois China the
abolition of the still powerful position of the feuda
lords, abolition of the internal customs the rule of the
generals, the irregular collection of taxes, etc.
b. The Chinese revolution is at the same time
social movement the part of the poor peasants and
artisans forming the predominant of the Chinese
people, with view to improvement of their hard
lot, reduction Of the ground rents and measures
against the unlimited taxation abuses of the military
clique the classes in question being altogether
that it is only together with the proletarat and led
by the proletarat, that they attain their ends.
q The Chinese revolution however, is also a social
movement the part of the proletariat itself which,
crowded together in the large towns by the tremen-
dously rapid capitalist development of the country is
struggling upwards by the aid of its trade unions and
political organizations.
Seeing however, that the snal-peasant petty-bour-
geois class though in overwhelming majority is not
capable of leading modern state the internal problem
of the Chinese revolution eliminates in the question
Are the great Chinese peasant people destined to ex-
perience new chapter in its history under the leader
ship of the proetarat? In view Of the numerical weak
of the latter there be question Of proetaran
dictatorship, but only Of a leadership on the part of
the proetaria within bloc of the peasants the work.
ers and the rural and urban petty bourgeose and
GLIDING the big bourgeosie" w. Bucharn 'Perspectves
of the Chinese Revolution Die Kommunistische Inter
rationale of March 9Th, 1920 Until few days ago
the Kuomintang, the revolutionary anti-imperiaist
popular party Of China comprised all the three ten
denotes of the Chinese revolution The Communist Party
of China represents in the Kuomintang the class
conscious workers and those with then; the left wing
of the Kuomintang embodes the great Of the
peasants and the pettybourgeose, and the right wing
and center the various strata Of the Chinese bourgeose
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