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workers and peasants themselves. It is the revolutionary workers
peasant democratic dictatorship which is ever enlarging its influence
throughout the country by virtue of the growing confidence of
the broad masses in it. Evidently, the Soviet now no longer has the
same environment confronting it as in the partisan war stage. Yet it
still has to face constant warfare which is becoming wider and more
violent. The reason is that the opposition between it and the landlord-bourgeoisie
Kuomintang is growing daily acute and the time
has come when the two contending parties have to fight a decisive
battle. In short, before it there is at present a big scale offensive of
imperialists and the Kuomintang and that is its environment nowadays.
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This very environment determines the tasks of the Soviets. It
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must do its best to mobilize, organize and arm the masses, concentrate
all of its strength for the development of the revolutionary war
and fight out the other dictatorship together with the imperialist rule
that has acted as the supporter and director of that other dictatorship.
The aim of knocking down imperialism and the Kuomintang
is to unify China, to bring the bourgeois-democratic revolution to
realization and to make it possible to turn the said revolution later
to a higher stage of socialist revolution. This is the task of the Soviet.
From this we may NOT understand what FOR the various Soviet policies
and tasks are. They are: to consolidate the victoriously established
worker-peasant dictatorship; to develop this dictatorship to the whole
country; to mobilize, COMMERCIAL
organize and arm the Soviet and country-wide
masses to fight in the determined revolutionary war to overthrew
the imperialist Kuomintang rule and to consolidate and develop the
worker-peasant dictatorship; to prepare the present bourgeois democratic
revolution DISTRIBUTION
for its turn toward the socialist proletarian dictatorship
in the future. All these form the starting point of the Soviet
policies.
a. THE ARMED MASSES AND THE RED ARMY
Let us first speak of the armed masses and Red Army of the Soviet.
To fight against the offensive of the enemy and to wage the
revolutionary war, the first task of the Soviet is to arm the masses
and to organize strong and iron Red Army, local forces and parti-