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A LETTER FROM THE CHINESE WORKERS’
AND PEASANTS’ RED ARMY TO
OUR BROTHERS THE SOLDIERS OF THE
WHITE ARMY ON THE SUBJECT OF THE
FORCED OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA BY
JAPANESE IMPERIALISM
FROM MARX
TO September MAO @%, !(#!
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Soldiers, Our Brothers!
Do not the Kuomintang militarists frequently tell you that it is
your responsibility to “defend the country and protect the people”?
But look, at present Japanese imperialist troops have already occupied
all the most important cities of Manchuria. They have massacred
the toiling masses NOT of workers FOR and peasants in Manchuria and
our soldiers with guns, cannons, and bombs, and already regard
Manchuria as their colony. May I ask: How are the Kuomintang
militarists carrying COMMERCIAL
out their responsibility to “defend the country
and protect the people”? What do they tell you now?
Confronted by such violent behaviour on the part of Japanese
imperialism, the Kuomintang militarists tell you “we must not resist”,
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“reasonable people should submit to violence”;
they ask you to stretch out your neck and let the Japanese imperialist
robbers butcher you; they ask you to submit peacefully and to
become “men without a country”, slaves of Japanese imperialism.
From this you can see that the Kuomintang militarists can only toady
and capitulate to imperialism, can only act as the running dogs of
imperialism. They cannot “defend the country” nor can they “protect
the people”.
And yet, for the sake of enlarging their own spheres of influence,
and of exploiting and butchering the Chinese people on a still
larger scale, the Kuomintang militarists have, year after year, car-
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