The advocates of closed-door tactics say the above arguments are
all wrong. The forces of the revolution must be pure, absolutely pure, and the
road of the revolution must be straight, absolutely straight. Nothing is
correct except what is literally recorded in Holy Writ. The national
bourgeoisie is entirely and eternally counter-revolutionary. Not an inch must
be conceded to the rich peasants. The yellow trade unions must be fought tooth
and nail. If we shake hands with Tsai Ting-kai, we must call him a
counter-revolutionary at the same moment. Was there ever a cat that did not
love fish or a warlord who was not a counter-revolutionary? Intellectuals are
three-day revolutionaries whom it is dangerous to recruit. It follows therefore
that closed-doorism is the sole wonder-working magic, while the united front is
an opportunist tactic.
Comrades, which is right, the united front or closed-doorism?
Which indeed is approved by Marxism-Leninism? I answer without the slightest
hesitation--the united front and not closed-doorism. Three-year-olds have many
ideas which are right, but they cannot be entrusted with serious national or
world affairs because they do not understand them yet. Marxism-Leninism is
opposed to the "infantile disorder" found in the revolutionary ranks.
This infantile disorder is just what the confirmed exponents of closed-doorism
advocate. Like every other activity in the world, revolution always follows a
tortuous road and never a straight one. The alignment of forces in the
revolutionary and counter-revolutionary camps can change, just as everything
else in the world changes. The Party's new tactics of a broad united front
start from the two fundamental facts that Japanese imperialism is bent on
reducing all China to a colony and that China's revolutionary forces still have
serious weaknesses. In order to attack the forces of the counter-revolution,
what the revolutionary forces need today is to organize millions upon millions
of the masses and move a mighty revolutionary army into action. The plain truth
is that only a force of such magnitude can crush the Japanese imperialists and
the traitors and collaborators. Therefore, united front tactics are the only
Marxist-Leninist tactics. The tactics of closed-doorism are, on the contrary,
the tactics of the regal isolationist. Closed-doorism just "drives the
fish into deep waters and the sparrows into the thickets", and it will
drive the millions upon millions of the masses, this mighty army, over to the
enemy's side, which will certainly win his acclaim. In practice, closed-doorism
is the faithful servant of the Japanese imperialists and the traitors and
collaborators. Its adherents' talk of the "pure" and the
"straight" will be condemned by Marxist-Leninists and commended by
the Japanese imperialists. We definitely want no closed-doorism; what we want
is the revolutionary national united front, which will spell death
to the Japanese imperialists and the traitors and
collaborators.
