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without first won Dey tho now-democratic state; and the more thozoughgoing th ‘new-democratic revelition and the moro firmly cstablished the leadership of the -proletariat in this first stege, the easier will bo the transitionto socielism in this wey tho minimum and maximum program of ths Chinoso Commnist Party forms an indissolusble unity. The thoory of the new-denocratic revoltuion maintains that it is possible for the proletariat to lead a revolution of all patriotic. elasses ageinst inpericlisn and feudalism. The main force of the revolution is the peasant masses and the workers relying on people's war. The theory of "sup woe port® for tho Vietnemsse thru the dictatorship of tha proletariat as the “only oaese way" and the Only solution isa theory of no support at all. The precodent for this dangerous "theory" may bo found in the activi- ~ tics of 2 small group of Chinese Trotskyites and other "leftists" in China, During the Period of the ‘ar of Resistance against Japan, they opposed "unity end struggle" with Chang Kai Shek as "class colleboration," During the fhird Revolutionary Civil War imuediately after tho Chinese had blow away the Japanese imperialists, the Trotskyites raisedthe banner of the "dictatorship of the Pro- Jeteriat® end opposed the novdenocratic state, Mro © recognized the danger carly - and answored the question head-on: . cect Ir the cupitalist: road ‘of bourgeois “sotatorchtp - is out of the question, thon is it possible to a. teko the socialist road ef proletariat dictatorship? No, that is not possible either. Lee “Mithout 2« doubt, the present revoltuion istho first stop, which vill dovelop into ‘the second step, that : of socialism, at a lator date,.,Having determinod on their policy, they (the bourgeois roectionarios) have lost no timo in hiring soma "motaphusicsnongors" plus a few Trotskyites who, brandishing thoir pens wa like lancos, are tilting in ell directions an? cre- . - ating tedlam, Hence ths whole bag of tricks for do~ 2. +? ceiving those vho do not know what is going on in the £ yorld around thom... Tho"theory of a.single revolution” is simply a theory of no revolution at all, and that is the heart of the matter, . : It is no wonder that Mo regerded Irctsky as a Soriminad ronogade," Tho Chiroso and Vietnamese revolutions havo cortain. similarities and certain differences, “& do not claim to te exports on tho subject but cortain fects should bo obvious to tho leaders of the PLP, What is tho situation in Viotnam? Tho country is divided, The country is experiencing a war of national literation in one half, Tho poeple are totally mobilized and totally united bekind their leadership in the waging of psople's war. Thad everyday experiences of the poople producg, martyrs and heroes in a fashion that is not paralleliod in poacoful tines, ‘he imperialists in their mad disirety commit genocido on &@ pooplo producc the opposite, A‘national cloansing takes placo in which tho eadro and poople aro stecled, It can truly bo said that the Viotnamese aro today weging e war and winning it ageinst odds that have novor before bocn faced by a poorle. Not cvon in in tho 1 ‘base areas of China boforefinal victory had the scecial rolationsbecnas advanced as in North Victnam, Tho reunification of all of Viotnom is bound to bo decisively influoneced by the construction of socialism 3n tho north, At the sane time, it would bo insane for tho Victnamose not to take into account the differences in the north and south vhich imporiaiist occu- pation has urought and not procood in a step by stop weyto correctly handlo ‘theso contradictions among the poople. To erguc for rounificationstrictly from the program of socialist construction in tho north and not on ths basis of equality and learning from ccririon experience, would be objoctivoly to prevont the NLF. from unitingall patriotic classes agaiust U.S. imperialism and vould spoll tho dofeat of Feo) Mo's war. | we ALP, for cyt, is a broad, national, donceratdc coalition, Tho mein force with tho RLF 4s the Poopic's Rovelutionary Party (PRP) which works “Back Likoration Trogram™ Frozr 3 Ibid., p. 18. | hy Tbid., p. 19. 7 2 . . . 5} Won Now Dunocracy, * Meo Tso Ture, Selectod Works TI, p. 358-9. sive Iebor (Fobruary, 1969), p. 19.