“The Communist International must enter into a temporary alliance with bourgeois democracy in the colonial and backward countries, but should not merge with it, and should under all circumstances uphold the independence of the proletarian movement even if it is in its most embryonic form…”
– V.I. Lenin, “Draft Thesis on National and Colonial Questions for the Second Congress of the Communist International”
“Hence the task of the communist elements in the colonial countries is to link up with the revolutionary elements of the bourgeoisie, and above all with the peasantry, against the bloc of imperialism and the compromising elements of “their own” bourgeoisie, in order, under the leadership of the proletariat, to wage a genuinely revolutionary struggle for liberation from imperialism.”
– J.V. Stalin,”The Results of the Work of the Fourteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B.)”
“The second deviation lies in an over-estimation of the revolutionary potentialities of the liberation movement and in an under-estimation of the role of an alliance between the working class and the revolutionary bourgeoisie against imperialism. It seems to me that the Communists in Java, who not long ago mistakenly put forward the slogan of Soviet power for their country, arc suffering from this deviation. That is a deviation to the Left, and it is fraught with the danger of the Communist Party becoming divorced from the masses and converted into a sect. A determined struggle against that deviation is an essential condition for the training of real revolutionary cadres for the colonies and dependent countries of the East.”
– J.V. Stalin, “The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East”
“Temporary cooperation is permissible, and in certain circumstances even a temporary alliance, between the Communist Party and the national-revolutionary movement, provided that the latter is a genuine revolutionary movement, that it genuinely struggles against the ruling power, and that its representatives do not hamper the Communists in their work.”
– Sixth Congress, Communist International: Theses on the Revolutionary Movement in Colonial and Semi-Colonial Countries (September 1928), in: Jane Degras (Ed.): ‘The Communist International: 1919-1943: Documents Volume 2; London; 1971; p. 542.
“[At a certain point in the revolution], the proletariat pushes aside the national bourgeoisie, consolidates its hegemony and assumes the lead of the vast masses of the working people in town and country, in order to overcome the resistance of the national bourgeoisie, secure the complete victory of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, and then gradually convert it into a socialist revolution, with all the consequences following from that.”
– J.V. Stalin, “Questions of the Chinese Revolution”
“Basic factors determining the character of the Chinese revolution:
a) the semi-colonial status of China and the financial and economic domination of imperialism;
b) the oppression of feudal survivals, aggravated by the oppression of militarism and bureaucracy;
c) the growing revolutionary struggle of the vast masses of the workers and peasants against feudal and bureaucratic oppression, against militarism, and against imperialism;
d) the political weakness of the national bourgeoisie, its dependence on imperialism, its fear of the sweep of the revolutionary movement;
e) the growing revolutionary activity of the proletariat, its mounting prestige among the vast masses of the working people;
f) the existence of a proletarian dictatorship in the neighbourhood of China.
Hence, two paths for the development of events in China:
either the national bourgeoisie smashes the proletariat, makes a deal with imperialism and together with it launches a campaign against the revolution in order to end the latter by establishing the rule of capitalism;
or the proletariat pushes aside the national bourgeoisie, consolidates its hegemony and assumes the lead of the vast masses of the working people in town and country, in order to overcome the resistance of the national bourgeoisie, secure the complete victory of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, and then gradually convert it into a socialist revolution, with all the consequences following from that.
One or the other.”
– J. V. Stalin, “Questions of the Chinese Revolution”
“In the first period of the Chinese revolution,…the national bourgeoisie (not the compradors) sided with the revolution…Chiang Kai-shek’s coup marks the desertion of the national bourgeoisie from the revolution.”
– J.V. Stalin, “Questions of the Chinese Revolution”
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