Since the split between the Kuomintang and the Commanist Party of China (and the Third Interpationsl) in 1927, the C. P. been devoting itself principally to the task of making Communists out of Chinese peasants, particularly those regions where the people live cither in a constant condition of Semi-starvation or where civil war and political ignorance have throw: Peasants into increasing misery during the past three years. south and central China, the regions in which the Communists have been fable to work most successfully are the borderlands between provinces, mountainous regions where bandi and other unlawful elements are refugees, among the aboriginal: and possibly non-Chinese peoples vf the South, among defeated but inadequately absorbed and disbanded troops and among the excessively taxed peasantry. Thus Communism finds recruits on the Kuangtung-Fukien border, the Kuangtung-Kiangsi border, southern Kiangsi, southern Hunan, the Kuangtung-Hunan border, the whole province of Kuangsi, the Fukien-Chekiang horder, Taihu region of the Ché- order, and northern impossible in these nate between between raids for political reasons. or for loot, between uprisings of ings of defeated some length and his xpecch (whoever he may be) seems to deal with ely than orthodox Chinese Communist Party as Trotskyists. The Right defect tion is, perhaps, a more serious one for the Communist Party, tends to bring Chinese Communists into closer communion own people on a non-Russian hi The Russians seck to fashion all the world in their own image: the Chinese gentry, head of a clan, possibly father or uncle of the Communist youth, is not the, same type of farmer as the Russian kalak, who is a private landowner, employing peasants in a°commun-system of land-ownership. The rightists among the Chinese Communists apparently have realized this and have sought some understanding the gentry, but this has been resisted by the' orthodox party, who fear most a weakening the vindictiveness of the Com: munist Youth against the Kuomin-Long and against the landowners. their energies are to be concentrat-fed anion the peasantry, any tendency towards an understanding between the Communists and' the Tandowners would only, mean a defeat for Communism.
In shifting from the cities to the interior villages, the Communists adopted brilliant tactics, for not only are the industrial centres Strongly possessed by either' the Kuomintang or the northern militarists but they are also now guarded by foreign troops and gunboats ind all efforts at demonstrations strikes prove futile, Commun:
publications recount meetings 1 strikes and street_demonstr in Shanghai which the residents here know never took place.
For instance, one authoritative Communist report states that there china" mirist spay "attentt fteties In rural districts, fanition of ite attitude the social' strata of" the. Chinese countryside.
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