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REPORT TO
THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
OF WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’
REPRESENTATIVES*
FROM January MARX
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TO MAO
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imperialist Kuomintang rule has further declined in the process of
1. THE PRESENT SITUATION AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET MOVEMENT
Two years have elapsed since the First National Soviet Congress
convened. Facts and events of the past two years tell us that the
its debacle while the Soviet movement proceeded and developed vigorously
towards its victory!
Now we have arrived NOT at the era FOR when the Chinese Revolution
has become further acute and the whole world is passing its transitory
period leading to a new turn of war and revolution. The opposition
of the socialist COMMERCIAL
world to the capitalist world has become much
sharper. On the one hand, the socialist construction in the Soviet
Union and the peace policy of the Soviet Government have achieved
sweeping success, all conducive to the consolidation of the position
of the Soviet Union, DISTRIBUTION
in sharp contradiction to the capitalist world
where the eversharpening of the economic crises has led the imperialist
powers to seek a workable solution in the attack on the Soviet
Union and China. Preparations for the intervention against the Soviet
Union have never ceased for a single minute while the imperialist
division of China and the intervention against the Chinese revo-
* This is a report presented by comrade Mao before the Second National Congress
of Workers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, held in Juichin in Kiangsi, on January
23, 1934. Extracted from Chinese Workers’ Correspondence, Shanghai, Vol. 4, No.
11, March 31, 1934. See also Mao’s article, “Our Economic work”, Selected Works,
Eng. ed., FLP, Peking, 1965, Vol. I, p. 141.
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