Chapter 10 Report on the Dissolution of the Comintern[1]

(May 26, 1943) The dissolution of the Comintern, as reported by foreign news agencies, was an epoch-making event.This can be proved by the fact that countries all over the world, no matter whether they are in the anti-fascist camp or the fascist aggressor camp, regardless of party or faction, have paid the utmost attention to this issue in the past four days. Why did the Communist International dissolve? Didn’t it work for the liberation of the working class all over the world and for the anti-fascist war? Yes, it does.The Communist International was created by Lenin.During the entire historical period of its existence, it has made great contributions in helping countries to establish truly revolutionary working-class parties and in organizing the great cause of the anti-fascist struggle.The influence of the Communist International among the Chinese people is enormous.The reason is that although China is an economically backward country, it has continuously carried out three great revolutionary movements in twenty-two years, namely the Northern Expedition, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, and the War of Resistance Against Japan. The revolutionary movement has given great help.On the eve of the Northern Expedition, the Comintern helped Mr. Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang under his leadership, prompting the Kuomintang to reorganize in 1924, and concluded the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.At that time, Mr. Chiang Kai-shek had been to Moscow under the order of Mr. Zhongshan, and representatives of the Kuomintang had also attended the meeting of the Communist International.These are enough to prove how great the Communist International's assistance to the Chinese revolution and its influence among the Chinese people are, not to mention its assistance to the subsequent Agrarian Revolutionary War and the War of Resistance Against Japan in recent years.

Revolutions cannot be exported or imported.Although with the help of the Communist International, the emergence and development of the Chinese Communist Party is due to the fact that China itself has an enlightened working class, and the Chinese working class has created its own party, the Chinese Communist Party.Although the Chinese Communist Party has only 22 years of history, it has carried out three great revolutionary movements. Since the Communist International has made great contributions to China and other countries, why did it announce its dissolution? According to the principles of Marxism-Leninism, the organizational form of the revolution should be subordinated to the needs of the revolutionary struggle. If the organizational form no longer meets the needs of the struggle When appropriate, this form of organization should be eliminated.At present, the revolutionary organizational form of the Communist International is no longer suitable for the needs of the struggle. If this organizational form is continued, it will hinder the development of the revolutionary struggle in various countries.What is needed now is the strengthening of the national communist parties in all countries, not the need for this leading center of the International.The reason for this is mainly due to the following three reasons: First, because the situation within and between countries is more complicated than in the past, and its changes are more rapid, and a unified international organization can no longer adapt to this extraordinary situation. A complex and rapidly changing situation.Correct leadership needs to start from a careful study of the situation in the country, and this is even more for the Communist Party of each country to do it.The Comintern, which is far from the actual struggles of various countries, was suitable in the past when the situation was relatively simple and the changes were not very rapid, but it is not suitable now.Second, the fascist brigands have drawn a deep gap between the nationalities in the fascist camp and the anti-fascist camp. Anti-fascist countries include socialist, capitalist, colonial and semi-colonial countries of various types. Fascist countries and There is also great variation among its vassals, in addition to neutrals in various situations.In order to quickly and effectively organize the anti-fascist struggle in all countries, a centralized international organization has long been felt inadequate, and this situation has become particularly obvious recently.Thirdly, the leading cadres of the Communist Parties of various countries have grown up, and they have matured politically.Take the Chinese Communist Party as an example to illustrate this point.The Chinese Communist Party has gone through three revolutionary movements, and these revolutionary movements were continuous and very complicated, even more complicated than the Russian Revolution.In these revolutionary movements, the Chinese Communist Party already has its own well-trained and excellent cadres.Since the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in 1935, the Communist International has not interfered with the internal problems of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese Communist Party has done a very good job throughout the Anti-Japanese War of National Liberation.

In the past four days, the public opinions of various countries on the dissolution of the Communist International can be seen as follows: All righteous people in the countries of the Anti-Fascist Alliance praised this move.But fascist countries are different. All the bloody aggressors who have signed agreements against the Comintern in the past seem to be unwilling to disband the Comintern. Do you find it strange? They are all very embarrassed and desperately accusing the Comintern dissolve.In the Allied countries[2], for example, the die-hards in the Social Democratic Party in Stockholm and London used to refuse the Communist Party of their country to join the party on the grounds that they were "ordered by the Comintern", but now they do not welcome the dissolution of the Comintern, and It's a little oddity.

Now the task of all the anti-fascist countries in the world is to unite the labor movement in order to defeat fascism forcefully and quickly.The die-hards in the labor movement of this kind are very unhappy that the dissolution of the Comintern has left them no excuse, and they even say that the Communist Parties of all countries should also be dissolved.There may be such uncommon-sense arguments in China, let's take a look.But I believe that the majority of righteous people in China will not go along with this kind of argument, and the reason is because this kind of argument lacks any basic common sense.The disbandment of the Comintern is not to weaken the Communist Parties of various countries, but to strengthen the Communist Parties of various countries, making them more nationalized and more suitable for the needs of the anti-fascist war.Our party's rectification campaign in recent years to oppose such bad things as subjectivism, sectarianism, and stereotyped party writing is precisely to make the Chinese Communist Party more nationalized[3] and more suitable for the needs of the War of Resistance and the founding of the nation.

Now that the Communist International is gone, this increases our sense of responsibility.Every comrade must understand that he has shouldered a great responsibility.Proceeding from this sense of responsibility, we must bring into play the creativity of Communists.We are in the midst of a difficult national liberation war. The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are resisting an extremely powerful enemy in the enemy's rear. Our environment is very difficult and the war will last for a long time.But this kind of long-term and arduous struggle just tempers ourselves, makes us think carefully, never careless and self-righteous; makes us earnestly get rid of subjectivism, sectarianism and stereotyped party style, and show full responsibility attitude comes with a high degree of creativity.

Two kinds of unity are absolutely necessary: ​​one is unity within the Party, and the other is unity between the Party and the people.These are invaluable treasures for overcoming difficult circumstances, and all comrades in the party must cherish these two invaluable treasures.First, all comrades in the party must unite around the central government. Any act that undermines unity is a crime. As long as the Communists are united and united, we will overcome any powerful enemy and any difficult environment.Second, comrades in the entire party must be good at uniting the people. Here I would like to invite comrades to learn from the example of Comrades Chen Zongyao and Zuo Qi reported by the "Liberation Daily" recently.Comrade Chen Zongyao is the head of the 718th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. He led the whole regiment to walk hundreds of miles to carry rice. People are full of energy, and no one deserts.Comrade Zuo Qi is the political commissar of the regiment. He lost one hand in the war. He couldn't hold a hoe when he opened up wasteland. He cooked for the soldiers in the camp and picked up the mountain to feed the soldiers. The soldiers were moved. indescribable.All our Party cadres must learn from the spirit of these two comrades, become one with the masses and overcome all bureaucratism that is divorced from the masses.We communists do not want to be officials, but to make revolutions. Each of us must have a thorough revolutionary spirit, and we must not become divorced from the masses for a moment.As long as we do not become divorced from the masses, we will surely win.

According to the "Liberation Daily" published on May 28, 1943. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is Mao Zedong's report at the Yan'an Cadre Conference convened by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.The meeting mainly conveyed the "Decision of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International on Proposing the Dissolution of the Communist International" and the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Proposal of the Dissolution of the Communist International by the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International".The Communist International, the Third International, was founded in March 1919 under the leadership of Lenin.In 1922, the Communist Party of China joined the Communist International and became a branch of it.On May 20, 1943, Dimitrov, General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, sent a telegram to Mao Zedong, informing him that the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International would announce on May 22 a proposal for the dissolution of the Communist International to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Discuss this proposal quickly and let us know.On May 21, the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided that Mao Zedong would reply to Dimitrov, expressing his approval of the proposal of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International.On May 26, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China passed the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Proposal of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to Dissolve the Communist International".On June 10, the Executive Committee of the Comintern decided that the Comintern was officially dissolved.

[2] Allies refer to China, the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France and other countries that jointly fought against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II. [3] On May 26, 1943, the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Concerning the Proposal for the Dissolution of the Communist International by the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International" pointed out: "The anti-subjectivism and anti-sectarianism carried out by the Chinese Communist Party in recent years The rectification movement against stereotyped writing in the Party aims to further integrate the revolutionary science of Marxism-Leninism with Chinese revolutionary practice, Chinese history, and Chinese culture.”