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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
cial and economic policies so as to guarantee the material needs of
the revolutionary war; to wage the cultural revolution so as to arm
the heads of the worker-peasant masses. All these, together with
other policies, are but directed to one goal: to overthrow the imperialist-Kuomintang
rule through revolutionary war, to consolidate
and develop the worker-peasant democratic dictatorship and to be
prepared to proceed to the stage of proletarian dictatorship.
b. SOVIET DEMOCRACY
FROM MARX
TO MAO
The Soviet of the worker-peasant democratic dictatorship is the
government of the masses themselves, directly depending upon them
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maintaining the closest relation with them and, therefore, able to
operate its maximum strength. It has already been the organizer
and leader of the revolutionary war and the mass life. Its enormous
strength is incomparable to any form of state in the history. it needs
a strong power to cope with its class enemy. But to the workerpeasant
masses it exercises no strong power but wide democracy.
The wide democracy of the Soviet is, first of all, manifested in its
election. The Soviet gives the right to vote to all oppressed and
exploited masses regardless of sex. This right to the worker-peasant
masses is unprecedented NOT in human FOR history. The experience of
the past two years tells us that the Soviet has been very successful
in its election. The particulars of the Soviet elections are as follows:
(1) The names COMMERCIAL
of the electors are written on a big red paper
and an election meeting with no exploiters participating in it takes
the place of the general mass meeting of the past. (2) The proportions
of social composition are as follows: one from every fifteen
workers and their DISTRIBUTION
family members; one from fifty peasants and poor
people; all the city and village Soviet councils are formed this way.
The method guarantees the leading position of the workers in the
worker-peasant alliance. (3) According to the Election Act proclaimed
by the Central Soviet Executive Committee in September
1933, the electron units for the peasants are villages while workers
have another rule. This makes the election universal among the peasants
while the workers can also elect their best representatives to
work in the Soviet Council. (4) During the two elections in 1932
and the election in the autumn of 1933 in many places more than 80
per cent of the electorate joined it. In some places, the sick people
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