li dance for Chinese C. P. in Bringing Upheaval The present period of the Chinese Revelution is that of the bourgeois and democratic revolution which, ce far, has been brought to Frultion neither from the econ point of view (agrarian revolution and destruction" of the feudal reglue), nor from. the point of view of" the struggle against ime perialivm, (unification of Chinn and. national independence), nor from the point of view of the trans= formation of power (dictatorship of the proletariat and of the peasants), It would be necessary to describe the present stage of the Chinese Revolution as that at which, it hay already been transformed into a Socialist Revolution,—It would in the same way be sary to describe it us a "permanent"
volution (opinion of the repre sentative of the Executive Committee of the Comintern). "The tendency to skip over this bourgeois and deniocratie state of the revolution und to assume at the me that lution is, would be to make the:
Moscow Violent og Ever mistake that Trotsky made in In connection with this and with the recent Tainan incidents a set of resolutions of the Executive Committee of the Third Internationa, which are reproduced below, ought to be of real interest to those who fatuously believe that Moscow has abandoned the task of throwing China into a Red convulsion. Thes German Communist organ Rote Fukne" (the Red Flag) of March 8, 1928 A great part of this document ie made up of the usual tiresome Bolshevik jargon and it is to be assumed that the tone optimism is, to some extent, in-Jected into it for propaganda purposes. A close reading of the ro-solutions will, however, reveal some very interesting passages.
It ig of interest, for instance, to note that Red barbarities in Ku tung and Hunan are deplored, not fon moral grounds but because they were untimely and inexpedient. The confidence of the. masses must be won before the butcheries begin. The Red coup in Canton was an heroic effort but also preture because the organization behind it was slipshod.
The foundations for agrarian evolution like the savage peasant risings in Kuangtung and Hunan, are laid throughout the North, but the Chinese Communist Party is ex: borted to remember that such movements can only succeed when supported by the revolt of the urban proletariat.
The Chinese are sternly warned against Trotskyism and deviations
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.