"militarism and impenalism" afforded Communism, an opportunity to get control over the proletariat and build up an organization designed to dominate the Kuomintang itself. He points out that what he considers a bourgeois movement was used by the Communists in full anticipation of the inevit-fable revolt of the bourgeois promotors against the Communist usurpers of the leadership of the Revolution. He welcomes this revolt because it puts the right wing of the Kuomintang in the position of rebelling against the rising power of the Sovietized proletariat and can therefore be interpreted as the beginning of a class war. Though he admits that the situation is critical, he does not admit that' ithe Communist cause is lost but. thinks that the fight has only' just begun.
This may, to some extent be! propaganda designed to hearten the German comrades and counter any tendency among them be discouraged by the bad news from China, but it would neither wise nor safe to assume that all propaganda. There is no reason to believe that the Communists think that they are hopelessly beaten, but every reason instead to feel sure that they are reshaping their methods of attack. They may! have to abandon open warfare in the field, as so many of them wanted to do when Feng Yuhsiang was defeated more than Jo year ago, but now that - they think that they have built up class consciousness in China and have instilled their doctrines into a fair sized army of the illiterate proletariat, they _are probably ready to undertake a mew kind of subterranean war-, fare, with no sense of defeat or discouragement but' with fresh confidence in new tactics. Men! ike Borodin are spiritually re-
jof the kind that leap off the dock into the river in broad"daylight and sink in the presence of their enemies, only to come up ithe drain behind their adversary ies' backs, like prodigies of the cinema, and start the excitement all' over again, We fee] that, something like this is foreshadowed in the article that we reproduce,
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