Perspectives of the Chinese Revolution

1 HE history, present position and perspectives of the Communist movement in China are probably more beclouded by distortions and ignorance than any other topic of major world importance of the present day. Offhand one might find no grounds for surprise in this, for those who mortally hate and fear Communism have usually found solace in the most consciously wilful and often most ludicrous misrepresentations of the methods and activities of the Communist movement and the character and objectives of Communist thought. What complicates matters as regards the Chinese Communist movement is the fact that the fog which enshrouds it derives not only from the counter-propaganda of the Kuomintang, but in large measure from conditions within the Communist movement itself; from the propaganda of the Communist International and its apologists. There is naturally no mystery concerning the Kuomintang's opinion of the Communists, which has been forcibly expressed during these past eight years through the State police and the Kuomintang armies. That the Kuomintang regime has conducted this campaign of repression out of a deep consideration for its own interests no one will deny. But if we are to understand the nature of the Chinese Communist movement, its past blunders and its future perspectives, we must consider the Communist premise that salvation for China, the solution of its acute social and economic contradictions, lies only in the overthrow of the Kuomintang regime and its replacement by a Chinese soviet state. The Chinese Communist Party was born amid the growth of productive forces and the consequent social ferment which gave rise to the Chinese revolutionary movement in the years following the Great War. Rapidly maturing conditions for a radical change

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