Chapter 21 The revolutionary power of the people is the real advantage[1]

(February 22, 1948) The spokesman said: Even so, people should not misunderstand that the mutual cooperation between Truman, Chiang Kai-shek and all the American puppets in the East, and the multi-billion-dollar assistance plan for Chiang, will have any great effect.Of course, these cooperation and assistance have a little effect, which is the effect of the cardiac stimulant before the patient dies.The current world situation has changed to an extremely unfavorable position for U.S. imperialism and the reactionaries of various countries, and an extremely favorable position for the democratic forces of the people of the world.In just two years after the end of the Second World War, the entire capitalist world has been in chaos and is heading for even greater chaos; while the people's democratic forces in the world have developed tremendously and are heading for even greater development situation.The advantage is in the forces of democracy, not in the forces of reaction.The money and guns of the reactionaries are not a real advantage. People hate and disapprove of the reactionaries. People unite against and fight against the reactionaries. This is the real advantage.Before Chiang Kai-shek's bandits started the civil war, they had received four billion dollars in help from the American imperialists and equipment left behind by the Japanese army of one million. , should be regarded as an advantage.In just one year, however, the People's Liberation Army repulsed Chiang Kai-shek's offensive and turned itself into the offensive.Isn't this specific fact enough to show that the advantages of money and guns alone, or material advantages alone, cannot be regarded as real advantages, but that there is only the sum of people's hearts and materials, and only those who have mastered material things, that is to say, the people's Is the revolutionary force the real advantage? If such a large amount of American aid in the past not only failed to win the Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang, but also caused them such a serious defeat, then the new loan of 570 million US dollars[2] will What is the great effect? ​​The spokesman said that the Chinese people must understand that American imperialism and its running dog Chiang Kai-shek must make a death struggle, and we must be prepared to fight persistently in order to finally defeat them.But every act of a traitor and its foreign masters to lose power and humiliate the country, every new loan from the reactionary U.S. government to its Chinese lackeys, has aroused and will arouse the anger of the Chinese people, and this anger will be transformed into power to accelerate the Chiang Kai-shek gang perish.

Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is a passage added by Mao Zedong when reviewing the press release of the spokesperson of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China refuting the US President Truman's aid to Chiang Kai-shek. [2] On February 18, 1948, Truman submitted a "special address" to the U.S. Congress, requesting approval of the State Department's $570 million aid to Chiang Kai-shek's government.On April 3, the bill to aid Chiang was passed, and the amount was changed to 463 million U.S. dollars.