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282 MAO TSE-TUNG
the side of the victims of aggression — would be ravaged by war,
after which they would intervene to fish in troubled waters. . . .
Nevertheless, at this time, apart from the circumstances that German,
Italian, and Japanese imperialism were waging unjust wars of
pillage, and that the so-called democratic states were allowing them
to continue, there was another circumstance, there were also wars
of national liberation.
FROM MARX
TO MAO
4. OUR REVOLUTIONARY POLICY
DURING THE FIRST STAGE OF THE WAR
There is not the slightest doubt that the revolutionary policy of
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this stage has as its goal the organization of a united front against
aggression of the people of the country that is the victim of aggression.
. . . At the same time, this policy does not ignore the organization
by the Soviet Union and the governments of all the democratic
countries of the struggle to prevent new aggression. . . . Even
after Munich, because of the anger aroused among the broad masses
of the English and French people, and even among the left wing of
the bourgeoisie by the defeat of Spain and the disappearance of
Czechoslovakia, there was a possibility of compelling the Chamberlain
and Daladier governments to abandon their policy of nonintervention
and to organize, with the Soviet Union, a common front
against aggression. . . .
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5. THE RUPTURE OF THE ANGLO-FRANCO-SOVIET
NEGOTIATIONS AND THE BEGINNING OF
THE DISTRIBUTION
SECOND STAGE OF THE WAR
The bourgeoisie of the so-called democratic states fear on the
one hand that the fascist states may violate their interests; but they
fear the development of the revolutionary forces even more. They
fear the Soviet Union, they fear the liberation movements of the
peoples of their own countries, they fear the liberation movements
in the colonies and semi-colonies. Consequently, they rejected a
genuine united front against aggression and a genuine war against
aggression involving the participation of the Soviet Union, and they
organized by themselves a united counter-revolutionary front. They