The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-06
How Not to Support the Chinese Revolution
A REPLY TO AN ARTICLE IN INDUSTRIAL SOLIDARITY"
By Fred Ellis

cause their anti-imperialist activities
serve "to open the way to the smoth-
cred proletariat."
When Policy Changes.
When the leaders of these move
ments cease to be anti-imperialists
they are fought by the Communists.
But perhaps the editor of Industrial
Solidarity will ask the question:
why support leaders and social
groupings that are bound to become
enemies of the Masses" and then
draw the conclusion that such sup
port tends to confuse the workers.
But Communist policy in these
struggles is not onesided and does
not consist of unqualified support of
purely nationalist groups even in the
campaign against imperialism.
The manner in which the campaign
of the Communists is carried on and
the reasons therefore are as follows:
There are to be found in the de-
pendent countries two distinct move
ments which every day grow farther
apart from each other. One is the
b o>urge ois democratic nationalist
movement, with program of politi-
cal independence under the bourgeois
order, and the other is the mass ac-
ton of the poor peasants and work
ers for their liberation from all sorts
of exploitation. The former endeavor
to control the latter, and often sue
coed to a certain extent, but the Com
munist International and the parties
affected must struggle against such
control, and help to develop class
| consciousness in the working masses
of the colonies. For the overthrow of
foreign capitalism, which is the first
step toward revolution in the colonies,
the cooperation of the bourgeois ma
tionaiist revolutionary elements is
useful"
"But the foremost and necessary
task is the formation of Communist
Parties which will organize the peas
ants and workers and lead them to
the revolution and the establishment
of Soviet republics. Thus the masses
in the backward countries may reach
Communism, not through capitalistic
development, but led by the class
conscious prOletariat of the advanced
capitalist countries. (Our emphasis
Outstanding Facts.
Is the editor of Industrial Solidar-
ity opposed to this policy and method
of procedure and if he is not why
does he say that movements of this
sort are doomed to failure 2"
Certainly the most outstanding
fact in the international class strug-
gle today is the rise of colonial in
dependence movements in the colonies
and semi-colonial countries which
strike heavy blows at the foundations
Of Imperialism.
Imperialist Corruption.
These movements have not been
successful as yet but the reason is
not that success is impossible. These
movements have suffered temporary
defeats because the working class of
the ,impcrialist countries have not as
sisted them sufficiently and this is to
say that the working class is still too
much under the influence of the de-
mocrats and SUCH ideas as are put
forward by the editor of Industrial
Solidarity.
Furthermore, the editor of Indus
trial Solidarity, after saying that
movements of this sort are doomed
to failure" continues and says that
\ "reaction destroys what organization
has been already established"
A Bad Statement.
This appears to us as a more OF
less deliberate attempt to make il
appear that the Chinese revolution
has been wiped out. If this were
true there would no longer be any
reason for support of the Chinese
revolution and it is in this respect
that such statements are objective
gid to the imperialists.