The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-03
New Reactionary Civil War and the
Prospects OF Revolution in China


becoming more and more clear to the masses
The possibility of peasant party leading the
revolution is out of the question because. even
if we assume that such party can be success
fully organized in China, it will necessarily
step into the camp of reaction when the revolu-
ton develops and will never be able to lead the
revolution The lesson in the case of the Rus
sian Social Revolutionaries should be sufficient
to warn the Chinese masses against entertain
ing any illusions regarding a purely peasant
party. The Chinese peasants can only win
their freedom and liberation under the leader
ship of the proletariat. Only the Chinese
Communist Party. the Chinese Section of the
Communist International, the only truly revo-
lutionary party in China, is leading the Chinese
masses in their daily struggles now and is Wig
orOusy preparing for the coming revolutionary
wave, and only under the leadership of the
Chinese Communist Party can the Chinese
workers and peasants win the fight in the next
revolution!
THE CHINESE REVOLUTION, THE AMER
ICAN WORKING CLASS, AND THE
CHINESE WORKERS IN AMERICA.
War is a continuation of politics But the
civil war in China is not merely continuation
of civil or internal politics. Since the Chinese
civil war represents preliminary skrmishes be-
tween the mperiaist powers in the Pacific it
is also continuation of international politics
and an expression of international antagon-
isms. The Chinese civil war marks a step for
ward in the onward march of world capitalism
to its grave. 1t is one of the many signs
which announce the accentuation of the gen.
eral crisis of world capitalism, and the ap-
proval of world war. The working class of
the Wild, especially the American working
class, should not lose sight of this fact They
must not think that the Chinese civil war sig
miles only maturing crisis of world capital
ism IN China The same cause that brought
about the present economic crisis in America
that is responsible for the revolutionary strug-
giles in India, and in Palestine, etc. is also
the cause of the civil war in China The
American working class should learn to look
at the problems of the world situation as
whole. They should strongly combat the
theory" of eXceptionalism which artificiay
builds a Chinese wall around the good old
U. 5. A. The world edifice of capitalism is
crashing and we should consider every crack
in its process of coming down as heralding the
approaching end of ten whole edifce, rather
thar .lerely sign of the breaking down of
an isolated" part of the building
Ill.
The connection between the Chinese revolu-
ton and the welfare of the working class of
western industrial countries has been dealt
with in many publications, and | will not re-
peat in detail what should be common knowl-
edge to every class conscious worker Suffice
it to point cut that, by holding China down
to colonial status and by thus seeking to
perpetuate mi-feudal conditions in China, the
ruling class of the imperialst powers is trying
to keep the standard of living of the Chinese
workers down to the starvation point which
will inevitably pull down the standard Of liv-
ing of the working class in the imperiast
countries as well. Herein lies the basis of the
community of interest between the workers in
the colonial countries and workers in imper-
ialist lands. The only complete guarantee of
high standard of living for the workers in
imperialist countries lies in successful reyo-
luton in the colonies and semi-colonies just as
the only complete guarantee for the enamel
patton of the colonies from the imperialist yoke
is the victory Of the proletariat in the leading
capitalist countries. Only through the con-
certed action of all can the workers of both
colonial and mperialist countries win COM
plcte victory in their fight for emancipation.
What about the Chinese workers in Amer
lea? What part are they playing in the world
revolution and the Chinese revolution? The
immediate task of the Chinese workers in