The article reprinted below is by: Kanization. The results were speed-2 Communist who professes to write ily apparent, More than one mil-from Moscow and signs himself A. lion proletarians were enrolled in Stetzki, a name unknown to local Russ 1r with Soviet protrade-unions, and about two million paganda literature. It first appear. peasants were alisted in peasant or. €4, however, in "Die Rote Fahne'
Broadening the Basis of Revolution (The Red Flag") of May 3, the off-This made it possible to broaden cial organ of the German Gommunthe basis of the revolution by mak-Party, which is published in Ber ing it a matter of vital and intelli. Hin and may therefore be fairly a gent interest to the great masses of, sumed to represent Moscow's [the exploited. During the preparatude towards the present sit tory period while this was going on, in China, This translation is from the Communist Party, and the work: the "Living Age," Boston, U.S.A. ing classes in general, loyally sup-of June 15. It is thought likely" ported the purely national revolu-local Red circles that this Stetzki is tionary movement of the bourgeoisie, the notorious Vointinaky who has and made common cause with the! contributed so largely to China's latter. troubles, since he is known to have As long as Chiang Kai-shek conused this name in the past as one of fined himself to fighting foreign im. his many aliases, Vointinsky's.¢x-penalists and the North China feadcellent knowledge of German and hi al military overlords; long as he familiarity with the Chinese situ pushed northward and extended the tion makes this identification seem {territories within which the Com. likely. Editorial comment on his.
Jmunist Party was free to work; as article appears elsewhere in to-day's Tong as he was Mherating the most! issue, important industrial sections China from the rule of the militar-Chiang, Kai-shek and Communists ists, he was working in our own Chiang Kai-shek had the support Jcause. As long as that continued of the Communist Party andthe the Communist Party of China wa working classes of China. They] have now declared him a. traitor to has developed, the cause of the revolution and however, since the Chinese bournational independene geoisie and Chiang Kai-shek have Were the Communists wise in sup.
Jone over to the reactionaries and porting Chiang Kai-shek? Ave they have made common cause with the Justified now in declaring him imperialists against the national re-traitor? Doesn't this seem incon-volution. That change in the situa. sistent? tion demanded a prompt and vigor:
No such inconsistency exists, The us change in the. tactics of -the Communist Party was vight in both.
Communist Party toward the bourcases, That accords with the logic coisie. This change had long been of revolution, preparation, China is passing through a mighty Bourgeois Revolt Foreseen revolution, in the midst of a high-complex domestic and inter-Both the Third International and! national situation, It is chavacterthe "Communist Party' of China istic of every revolution that realized from the frat that with the ditions change with unusual sudder Progress of revolution, and the. in-ne ceasing prominence of the working classes and the peasants in it, a time night, that the centre of power both would come when the' bourges the revolutionary and in the would desert the. cause and' their' position camp is constantly shifting. lisadevs- would go over to the react-rust ititin ned Every revolutionary ovat ionones. This had not only "been predicted-and foreseen in a general rig YE must recognize betimes their way, but it had been explittly sta ed in a Party resolution, That re-importance, and adopt Its tactics to solution declared that the desertion them...)
Chiang Kai-shek is a representative'of the Chinese nationalist bow point in the nation's evisie, who at one stage of the struggle, and would throw the whole volution hesitatingly and reluctant, responsibility for the continuance of ly adopted revolutionary methods that struggle upon the shoulders of and accepted evolutionary aid the workers and peasants, against foreign imperi and The faster the movement spread tive militarist feudalism, Ite among the workers and peasants, stands for the ideals and objects of and the stronger their organizations Room 'That bourgeoisie, 4 large section of the Chinese grew, the more decisively the ubjects of those organizations clarified the' exception of a minority selves as primarily economic, Conse. allied with foreign capitalls the more the workers de-self revolutionary, It is practical betterments - in hostile not only to foreign conditions, like higher wage Salism but also to the feudal inst shorter working day, and enlight: tions of its own country and the ar-Joved social legislation, and the more Dityary rule of its army leaders. the peasants insisted on lower land That bourgeoisie has suffered bit. rents and liberation from oporesterly yom imperialist oppression, sive and unjust tenancy conditions, This was concretely illustrated. by the faster the bourgeoisie swung to. the tariff system which the Powers. wards the side of reaction, forced upon China. Tt was a system.
During the last four months re-which enabled foreign manufactur-presentatives of the Right Wing of ers and merchants to exploit the cheap native labour to the disudvant. the Kuomintang have' repeatedly used repressive measures against the age of the Chinese nation and Chi ese employers. Such abu: this) workers" and peasants' organizations. They have disarmed the drove the bourgeoisie to ally itself working people and imprisoned their with the other classes in a national revolutionary movement, leaders. As long, however, a8. the bourgeoisie did not go over openly Using the Revolution to the enemy cause, the workers and Consistently with this, the bourpeasants themselves geoisie helped to finance a national nas far as pos-their own interest, to disist revolutionary army to fight fo imperialism and domestic mi ciplining their forces, and to gathering support from. every possible larism. Tt conducted the boseott inst_British goods, and utilized ireetion against the time when they Would be called upon to take the its connexions throughout the eotnlead in the struggle, try to disorganize the districts in. {he rear of the Novthern militarist Reaction Against. Workers front, The Kuomintang was just Now, frightened by. the growth twehind the lines of its opthe presen ponents as it was within the torr tories controlled by its ow In "these operatic Its generals Douigeoisie was quite ready to have turned their arma against the cept the assistance of the labouring workers and peasants of China, nave masses and the peasants, Tt ried to break up their "erg: ceded to the workers and. peasants tions, and have arrested and shot the right to organize their' leaders. 'The bourgeoisie _is strike, and freedom now trying, with the help of foreign imperialists, to set up a'dictatorshit portunity to to suppress' the national revolution trings.among the working people, 'This marks a radical' change in and to, forge them into n sol ithe situation. It calls for ah equal-
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