The political ideology of roving rebel bands has emerged in the
Red Army because the proportion of vagabond elements is large and because there
are great masses of vagabonds in China, especially in the southern provinces.
This ideology manifests itself as follows: (1) Some people want to increase our
political influence only by means of roving guerrilla actions, but are
unwilling to increase it by undertaking the arduous task of building up base
areas and establishing the people's political power. (2) In expanding the Red
Army, some people follow the line of "hiring men and buying horses"
and "recruiting deserters and accepting mutineers", [3] rather than the line of expanding the local Red Guards and the
local troops and thus developing the main forces of the Red Army. (3) Some
people lack the patience to carry on arduous struggles together with the
masses, and only want to go to the big cities to eat and drink to their hearts'
content. All these manifestations of the ideology of roving rebels seriously
hamper the Red Army in performing its proper tasks; consequently its
eradication is an important objective in the ideological struggle within the
Red Army Party organization. It must be understood that the ways of roving
rebels of the Huang Chao [4] or Li Chuang [5] type are not permissible under present-day conditions.
The methods of correction are as follows:
1. Intensify education, criticize incorrect ideas, and eradicate
the ideology of roving rebel bands.
2. Intensify education among the basic sections of the Red Army
and among recently recruited captives to counter the vagabond outlook.
3. Draw active workers and peasants experienced in struggle into
the ranks of the Red Army so as to change its composition.
4. Create new units of the Red Army from among the masses of
militant workers and peasants.
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