The Archive · 1929

Mass Work Our Motto

"The principal tasks confronting, the Party in the present situation, in the trough of two waves of the revolution, are to fight for the masses; to carry on massy work among the workers and peasants; to restore their organizations and to tuke advantage of all discontent with the Inndowners, the bourgeoisie, the militarists and) the foreign nperialists for the purpose of de: veloping the revolutionary struggle. To achieve this, it is necessary to strengthen the Party itself in every way. The slogan of mass uprising now becomes a propaganda slogan; and only to the extent that the masses are really prepared and the conditions for a fresh revolution tide mature, will it again become the slogan of immediate practice on a higher plane, under the banner of the dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry based on Soviets."

Tt will be seen from paragraph 54 that "union between the Kuomin-and the Communist Party of China absolutely out of the ques-yo garded as an opportunist error, This is of tremendous political significance at the moment for an effort is being made by a certain faction of the Left Wing to give the impression that such a union is feasible and practicable, Nartonat roads are to be constructed between Nanking and Hangchow, Nanking and Wuhu, Nanking and "Nanchang, Chuchow—(Che-Kiang) to Foochow, Pukow to One Xing, Hangchow "to Anking, and Hsuchowfu to Mongehen (Shantung).

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

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