The general crisis to the straggle aga with such fore. close connection that exists between China, Indo-China snd India, in its world capitalist system finds mos turn, enhances the significance of ing expression at the present Resist-the ' Chinese Revolution an to enormous degree, Final progress of this revolution, its and its inevit-into a pro revolution must demon= very rarely been grasped. non-Christian religions the thought the international pro-the full significance of the the Chinese of pires fear, often terror. And that was true inthe religion of Israel which was by far the loftiest how God was not a comforting but awesome thought. The prevailing conception of God was an austere You know of their elaborate stem of sacrifices, the principal purpose of which was to propitiate God, as though He were hostile and could only be won to friendliness by the sufferings of His creatures. But when Jesus came He taught that, while some of those conceptions were true as far as they went, they were incomplete. And not only so, they also showed a wrong emphasis. They gave the impression that God ws our side. The result of that teaching was that wherever Jesus went the strain was relieved and the demon tion, the Chinese Rev in its objective wurgeoix-democratic revolution, which will inevitably grow into proletarian revolution. In the pro-its development, as the wanes of the workers and lized, asthe oped and inflicted plebeian punish-sent upon the landlords, the gentry and the "tubae," the national (Kuomintang) bourgeoisie, fu a series of evolutions, finally deserted to the camp of the counterrevolution, entered into alliance with feudalism and compromised with the intperialist violators. of fear was exorcised. But let us be careful to notice that it was not Jesus Who made God friendly. What Jesus did was to reveal a. friendliness which was always there, but which had not been suspected. The heart of God has always been throbbing with love to man. The parable of the Prodigal Son is a picture of what has always been His, attitude towards those who have wandered. But who would have thought it, and how should we ever have known if Jesus had not told us?
His title "Immanuel" being. interpreted, means that God is with us, on our side. He is friendly.
The Character of God But let us draw a_ third inference: God is like Jesus. Everyone knows what libraries have been written and what controversies have been conducted to establish the tus of Jesus. But there has ways been another question upon which men have required light, viz. the character of God. Men have "For that reason, the struggle against imperialism is inseparable from the struggle for Innd and against the rule of the count revolutionary bourgeoisie, It is parable from the stritggle against the landlords (gentry and tubae) and the militarists and fairist their internecine wars, which result in the plunder of the masses of the people and in the strengthening of the positions the imperialists. The liberation of China can be achieved only in the struggle against the Chinese bourgeoisie, in the struggle for the agrarian revolution, in the contise tion of the Inndlords' land, and in the liberation of the peasantry from the crushing burden of taxation. The liberation of China cannot be achieved without the dictatorship proletariat and the poa-without the confiscation of the land, without the nationalization of foreign enterprises, banks, transport, ete, ined all sorts of things about im, but how could they get to know Him' unless He is made manifest?
One day Philip said to Jesus something like this: "You have told us that the best name for God is 'Pather,' and you have told us all sorts of wonderful things about the ther, can you not reveal Him to us; show us the Father and it sufficeth us." And Jesus replied: "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." That means that the lends of Jesus were able to look 10 His face and to say: "So this is God." For that is the Christian Gospel—that God is like Jesus. Any. conceptions that represent God as unlike Jesus are either inadequate or false, and we may dismiss them But let us be clear on this point—Jesus did not change the character God. God was always like Jesus. The heart of God was love and never ind been anything else; but men not know that glorious fact until in the face of Jesus that immortal love was seen in all its radiance, They shall call His name ha-manuel, which being interpreted, means that God is near. He is friendly, He is like Jesus.
A Peasants' Rebellion can be fulfilled only by a victorious rebellion of the broad masses of the peasantry, mareking under the leadership and under the hegemony of the revolutionary Chinese proletariat, "The present stage of the Chinese Revolution is characterized by the following features: notwithstanding internal rivalries, the bloc between ists, the feudal clements inflicted a severe defeat upon the proletari and the peasantry and has phy' ally exterminated a considerable of the ranks of the Communist Party. The labour movement has not yet wholly recovered from defeat. The development of the peasant movement in a number of districts continues. In those districts where peasant rebellions Vaave been victorious, peasant organs of power have been esta plished, and in some places peasant Soviets, The Communist Parly is gaining in strength and becoming internally consolidated; its authority and influence among the broad masses of the workers.and peasants ken as a whole, wees for the Tuck of uniformity of development: various parts of the enormous territory of China, the presen' situation must be characterised a5 the stage of preparation of the mass Fores a fresh rise a the movement, of the Chinese evitable tensifieation of the revoluti situation in India may absolutely new world situation and upset the n_of the expitalist sys the imperialist States, thei: the U.S.S.R. and the the colonial work, again and. agai confirms the cor metness of the cha terization of the pre ant epoch x an "epoch of wars and revoluti In paragraph 54, under the, get eral theme "VIL A Retrospect done, achiev the wunist Party of China is. deand its work planned. ere the enpphasis on peasant ac-1 to be noted: inism's Enemy 1. The Communist Party of China has suffered a series severe defeats rave opportun in the past: viz, luck of indepen from and' failure freely the Kuomintang; the fai lure to understand that the revolution was passing from one stage to another und the necessity for timely preparations for resistance, finally, its retarding of the Tevolution, Under the blows of devout the Party has rectified its mistakes and red_ruthless wat on committed a mistake of another:
Kind in failing to put up sulticiont sistance (0 obvious putschist and aiventurist moods, which ' led successful uprisings In Hunan, Hupeh and other places. On the other hand, several comrades drojpod into opportunist errors: they boxen to advance the slogan of a National Assembly. The Congress considers it to be absolutely wrong, to rorard the Canton uprising as 9 wob. The Canton uprising was n heroic rearguard action of the Chinese proletariat in the preceding period of the revolution, and not withstanding the grave errors con-titted by the leaders in the course of the rising, it marke the begin-of the new Soviet phase of the revolution,
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