struggle for power . It was so in 1905 . It was so in 1917 .
But what does the formation of Soviets at the present moment in the region of the activities , for example of the Wuhan Government , mean ? It means giving the slogan of struggle against the existing power in this region . It means giving a slogan for the creation of new organs of power , giving a slogan of struggle against the power of the revolutionary Kuomintang , which the Communists who have formed a bloc with the Kuomintang Lefts have joined and since there is no other power now in this region apart from the power of the revolutionary Kuomintang .
This means further to confuse the task of forming and strengthening the mass organisations of workers and peasants in the form of strike committees , peasant unions and committees , trade union councils , factory and mill committees , etc . On which the revolutionary Kuomintang is now already relying , with the task of the creation of a Soviet system as a new type of State power substituting the power of the revolutionary Kuomintang .
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favourable position . Until now the party functioned in loose , decentralised manner , as practically independent provincial organisations . It was divided to reorganise the party on a national scale in a conference which should meet simultaneously with the National Congress at the same place .
The conference of the Workers and Peasants Party was very well attended . It magnificently reflected the revolutionary atmosphere prevailing in the country . But in doing so , it forgot , or rather neglected , its objective task — to mobilize all the forces of national revolution under its banner . Instead of coming out as the leader of the entire revolt , it placed itself in the position of one factor — of the revolt .
In the main political resolution of the conference not only the Nehru report is rightly condemned as “ a bourgeois democratic scheme of a not very advanced type ”, but an attitude of
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This means , finally , not to understand which is the stage of the revolution that is taking place in China at the present moment . This means giving the enemies of the Chinese people a new weapon for struggle against the revolution , for creating new legends that it is not a national revolution which is taking place in China but an artificial implantation of “ Moscow Sovietisation ”.
Thus the Opposition by advancing the slogan of the formation of Soviets at the present moment is playing into the hands of the enemies of the Chinese Revolution .
The Opposition considers it inexpedient for the Communists to participate in the Kuomintang . The Opposition therefore considers it expedient for the Communist Party to leave the Kuomintang . But what does withdrawal by the Communist Party from the Kuomintang signify now when the whole pack of imperialists with all their hangers-on are demanding the expulsion of the Communists from the Kuomintang ? This means to abandon the field of battle and to throw our allies in the
hostile criticism is also taken towards the Independence League representing the opposition to the bourgeois right wing of the Congress . Indeed , no distinction is made between the two factions inside the Congress . When the petty bourgeois left radicals are trying to oust the bourgeois leaders from the leadership of the nationalist movement , they are not supported ; on the contrary , they also were condemned as the enemies of the workers and peasants , in the same breath with the representatives of big capital and landlordism . The criticism levelled against the programme of the Independence League was essentially correct ; but the well-merited criticism should have been accompanied by a positive attitude — an offer of united front on the common platform of antiimperialist struggle . The relation with the rest of the nationalist movement is defined as follows :
Kuomintang at the mercy of the enemies of the revolution .
This means weakening the Communist Party , undermining the revolutionary Kuomintang , facilitating the task of the Shanghai Cavaignacs and giving away the banner of the Kuomintang , the most popular amongst all the banners in China , into the hands of the Right-wing Kuomintang elements .
This is just what the imperialists , the militarists and the Right-wing Kuomintang elements are demanding at the present time .
Thus it turns out that by speaking in favour of the withdrawal of the Communist Party from the Kuomintang at the present moment the Opposition is playing into the hands of the enemies of the Chinese Revolution .
The recent Plenum of the CC of our Party was , therefore , absolutely right in rejecting resolutely the platform of the Opposition .
Pravda No . 90 , 21st April , 1927 . [ From J . V . Stalin ’ s Collected Works , Vol . 9 , Dec , 1926- July 1927 . State Publishing House of Political Literature , Moscow , 1948 .] �
“ While the Workers and Peasants Party remains relatively weak and unorganised in the country , it will be necessary to follow the traditional policy of forming fractions within Congress organisations for the purpose of agitation , of exposing the reactionary leadership and of drawing revolutionary sections towards the WPP . This policy , however , is only temporary . The WPP can have no intention of dominating or capturing the Congress . The function of its members within the Congress is purely critical . Our party members , therefore , cannot be allowed to take office in the Congress organisations .”
A motion that the members of the party should join the Independence League with the purpose of capturing it was also rejected . ( Inprecor , Vol 9 , No . 6 , 1 February
1929 , pp 93-94 ) �
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