Class [unclear: St] And the State

The [unclear: cl ggle], is the motive force of socialist society [unclear: an cres] on state power. The contradiction between [unclear: t argeoisie] and the proletariat is the [unclear: principal diction] in socialist society, during the [unclear: complica cess] of class struggle in socialist society a [unclear: bourgec dquarters] develops within the Party, [unclear: Govern d] state organs which, if conditions are ripe, [unclear: c eize] power and restore capitalism.

The [unclear: na f socialist] society itself, a society which [unclear: co elements] of both capitalism and [unclear: commun nerates] and regenerates the new [unclear: bourgeo combat] this problem, the people have to be [unclear: edu n] Marxism and to take a firm grip on all [unclear: aff] the state. With this in mind, Mao [unclear: T setung dly] launched mass movements, the most [unclear: im p] of which was the Great Proletarian [unclear: Cultural tion]. The contradictions in socialist society [unclear: ha be] correctly handled and resolved step [unclear: by st il] communist society has been reached, [unclear: otherwise list] restoration may take place.

It is [unclear: th ry] of continuing the revolution under the [unclear: dict of] the proletariat, only the outline of which [unclear: has given] here, which constitutes Mao [unclear: Tsetung's st] contribution to Marxism. The [unclear: struggle Teng] Hsiao-ping's rightism is a practical [unclear: apphcat le] theory.

In [unclear: my n], Mao Tsetung's theory of the Chinese [unclear: revoluti second] most important contribution to [unclear: Marx inism]. Its significance transcends China. [unclear: Cr ly] applied to the conditions of Indochina, [unclear: it d] in the successive defeats of Japanese, [unclear: h] and US imperialism. Today it guides the [unclear: Thai, sian] and Filipino peoples in their struggle [unclear: t at] their oppressors.

Old [unclear: Ch. as] a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country. [unclear: C s] economic, political and military life was [unclear: domi by] foreign imperialism. In 1927 [unclear: Japanesi] owned 73% of the iron-ore industry. [unclear: Althoug one-third] of the banks were foreign-owned, [unclear: th ntrolled] 80% of the total bank capital. The [unclear: dome g] capitalists (the brueaucrat capitalists) were [unclear: esser agents] of foreign capital. In the rural areas [unclear: the landlords] extracted tremendous rents from [unclear: the try] which constituted about 80% of the [unclear: pop n]. As much as 60% of the total harvest was [unclear: taken it] by the landlords. In 1927 taxes in Honan [unclear: pr had] already been collected up to the year [unclear: 1929 e] in Szechuan they had been collected up to [unclear: 193]

From [unclear: a lysis] of Chinese conditions, Mao Tse- tung [unclear: cone that] the basic contradictions in China were the [unclear: c diction] between foreign imperialism and the [unclear: Chine on] and the contradiction between feudalism [unclear: he] great masses of the Chinese people. Other [unclear: con tions], such as those between the [unclear: imperialist ers] in their contention for China, those between [unclear: th onal] bourgeoisie and the working class, between [unclear: n asants] and the poor and middle peasants, [unclear: ill] secondary ones.

[unclear: Accor Mao] Testung concluded that the edge of the [unclear: revolu n] old China was set against imperialism, [unclear: bureaurcra alism] and feudalism. It was not directed [unclear: against alism] in general. In Marxist terms China was in the stage of bour geois democratic revolution. The programme of the revolution comprised, externally, the overthrow of imperialism and the attainment of complete national liberation, and, internally, the elimination of the bureaucrat capitalists in the cities, the elimination of feudal production relations in the rural areas and the overthrow of the Kuomintang regime of Chiang Kai-shek following its desertion from the national revolution in 1927.