The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-31

of the bourgeoisie IN the south,
against the latter's compromising
policy and subsequent treachery and
fought for a revolutionary leader
ship of the campaign and for the
hegemony of the proletariat in the
war. This general line, which was
proposed to the Chinese Communists
by the Comintern, correspondent to
the position taken up by Marx and
Engels toward the national wars in
the last century and to the teachings
of Lenin.
Learn From Errors of c. p. China.
81. Nevertheless, the Chinese
Communist Party committed num-
Der of grave mistakes, from which
the Communists CT all oppressed ma
tions have important lessons to
learn. In this war, the duty of the
Communist Party of China was to
take full advantage of the revolu-
tionary situation prevailing at the
time to establish its own proletarian
class army, and to extend the mill
tary organization and training Of
the workers and peasants in order
to pave the way for the proletariat's
struggle for the leadership Of the
revolution. Although the objective
conditions at the time of the North
ow,, Lvood;4,o,, .vo,a faynral,1a fo,.
the Communist Party, the latter re-
Trained from utilizing the military
and political apparatus of the Kuo-
mintang for the purpose of conduct
ing its work in the army, and made
no attempt to create its own armed
forces. The Communist Party de-
voted itself entirely to maneuvering
with the higher Kuomintang COM
mand and failed to concentrate on
the work of propaganda and organ
ization among the masses of the SOL
diers, or on mass recruiting of
workers and peasants for the army
for the purpose of changing its char
acter. 1t failed to recognize the
revolutionary significance of arm
ing the workers and peasants and
did not devote sufficient attention
to the work of preparing for and
leading peasant guerilla warfare.
So. While supporting national
revolutionary war, the proletariat
determines its tactics on the basis
of a concrete analysis OF each given
national war. the role of the various
classes in it, etc. Thus, Marks tao
tics in 1S48, when he issued the slo-
gan of a war against Czarism, diff
fered from his tactics in 1870, in
the Prussian war against Napoelon
III.
During the northern campaign,
the Chinese Communists rightly en-
tered into a temporary alliance with
the national bourgeoisie, as long as
they fought against imperialism and
as long as the Communists were
able to carry on their work of ex-
posure in the MISUNDERSTANDING
camp.
The tactics of The German Com
munists in 1923, when they were
confronted by the pr oblem of ma
tional defense against the invasion
Of French imperialism, were neces-
sarily different. The German Com
munists had to combine national de-
Tense with a struggle for the over
throw of the German bourgeoisie,
which was incapable of playing a
revolutionary role.
This the attitude of the Chinese
Communists must now take Up to-
ward the national struggle against
Japanese intervention. They must
combine revolutionary national de-
Tense with the struggle to overthrow
Chang Kai-shek and the Kuomin-
tang bourgeoisie, and to establish
the revolutionary dictatorship of the
workers and peasants.
Allies Of Proletariat.
It must be stated, however, that
the national wars in which the pro-
letariat in the fight against imper-
| ialism may enter into temporary al