The Archive · 1927

Futility of Class Conflict

An explanation like this will Jenlighten our farmers in recognizing the futility of the Commanist proposition of class conflict and the necessity of the unification of all to participate in The loudest claim made by the Communists is that their party belongs: to the proletarians and that they) propose to give them the country, too. But, mind you, the country will not belong to the proletarians, but will belong to a few leaders proletarians, who uso the mass as 2 toll for the succors of their own political struggles. Last May, the Hanyang District Division of' the Kuomintang, under the control Communists, decided to take over the 16 factories of Hanyang and put them under: labour control—an experiment which had been tried and failed in Russia and Italy where the factories soon ran short of money, material, and fuel, and had to be turned over to the government oF the capitalists again. Did these people in Hanyang not know about [the impracticability of their plan? Yes, they knew ithas well as anything. But then why did they Jadvoeate it? Were they stupid or crazy, of what? No, they were intention ally putting up the plan with the view to embarrassing the government and causing a state of panic by unemployment to disturb the economic conditions, They only wanted, to displace the Kuomintang with their own party in the Nationalist Revolution, and were willing to take any' consequences in regard to the welfare of the labourers.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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