The essential difference, however, between the Left Wing and the other groups in the Kuomintang, is that whereas the other groups have grown to fear mass movements, have Suppressed all forms of popular political activity, the Left Wing keeps in active contact with students, labourers, ete. And differs from the Communist Party in that the Communists have now expelled all intellectuals and have limited their membership Inbourers and peasants, while the Left Wing makes a special effort. to hold together the revolutionary intellectuals.
Mr. Chen Kung-po's paper, "The Revolutionary Critic," continues to attract all elements which find that the Kuomintang, as controlled by the Centre Wing, docs not function as a popular political party carrying out Dr, Sun Yat-sen's basic principles, but as an organ of neo-tuchunism, The opposition tothe. Left Wing comes from those who insist upon neo-tuchunism as a necessary transitional stage.
The Unfinished Fight Whereas the Left Wing insists that the second stage (Reconstruction) comivenced the day Peking was captured and that further fighting can be only a matter of selfishness on the part of the mil tarists, their opponents insist that the fighting stage is not yet over, for the basic unification of the country has not been accomplished. Whereas the Left Wing asserts that the suppression of freedom of speech, press, mass movements, ct contrary to Kuomintang principles, their opponents say that to permit freedom absolutely would Tead to Communism. The Left Wing demands that the Third Party Congress be called. and they believe that they will have either a majority or the balance of power at is Congress; their opponents oppose the Third Party Congress as 2 disruptive measure.
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