The Archive · 1928

Stern Conclusion

The mass of Communist literature which has been sketchily con-lewd in thi article leads to several conclusions, which may briefly be summarized as follows:

There can never again be a union between the Kuomintang or any of its wings and the Communists, because ths Communists cannot trust the Kuomintang Ieaders to avoid opportunisr—that is, the general betrayal of the cause of the revolution as envisaged by the C. P. for their own advance: ment.

2. The Communist Party of China is continuing to do its work under the direction of. the Communist International and will ao: be diverted from its task by the bourgeois-nationalist necessities of the Kuomintang.

The "weakest link" in China is the peasantry, who live under. perpetual starvation conditions and therefore the Communists are divoting themselves to Communi tie agitation among the peas their greatest strength at the present time, arising in peasant groups in both North gnd South China, 4. The success of the world revolution in the Far East depends upon the success of the world revolution in China and therefore the Communists must succeed in China at any cost.

5. Although certain leaders of the Kudmintang, for "their own antidote for Communi Press censorship, "purging" of closing of student unions cannot impede a Communiss if nothing practical and done for the pasan-'The Communists are attack the weakest Link: that link should he strengthened. Instead, nothing is being done for the pea sants, particularly those of north-China, who have suffered now, for five or six years, uncousing civil war, reginning with Wu Pei-fu and not' y.t quite ended, This is the essential fact in politics—all case is mere commentary.

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