Chapter 29 Letter to Fan Changjiang[1]

(February 15, 1938) Mr. Changjiang: Mr. Ma came and got the handwriting to be read. Comrade Zhang postponed it, and then accepted the big announcement on January 3. Jiu Ji replied, thankfully forgive him. The questions raised by the husband are all major national issues. To make it clear, it takes nothing more than a text message.But the main point to solve Mr.'s problem, I think, is to truly recognize and implement a common program.Now there are many things to say and do together, ranging from the implementation of the War of Resistance to some democratic freedoms, but not everything, from the joint War of Resistance to the joint founding of the country, and make this thing the Kuomintang, the Communist Party and the Communist Party of China. All walks of life across the country sincerely recognize and sincerely seek its realization.If you have this thing, and if you sincerely admit it and sincerely seek its realization, then all the problems you raised will be solved.With regard to helping the Kuomintang to be healthy with practical actions, we have already begun to do so, and we hope that everyone in the press and all walks of life in the country will do so.As you feel, this is an important issue, but on the one hand, comrades from the Kuomintang need to welcome this kind of help, or at least not refuse it.We have put forward the slogan of helping each other. If we have a common program, things will be easier.Regarding the military issue, what you consider to be an obstacle to the mutual trust between the two parties is actually because there is no program covering the war of resistance to the founding of the country.If there is, this kind of worry will no longer exist in any party, because based on the lessons of the past ten years, any party that betrays its program and resumes a civil war must be opposed by the people of the whole country. I can't even fight.Otherwise, not only will the two parties become an obstacle to mutual trust, but within one party, why not? Isn’t the countless wars within the same party of the Kuomintang’s identitarianism in the past ten years obvious evidence? We sincerely hope that China will never have a civil war. In the conclusion [2] of the report made at the Yan'an Conference in July (forgive me you have read this article), regarding the distant future of China—the transformation from the democratic revolution to the social revolution, it was pointed out that the Communist Party should strive for peaceful transformation and avoid bloodshed, let alone Only in the stage of defeating foreign enemies and establishing a democratic country? Therefore, the essence of the problem is not the real political attitude of the Communist Party but the Kuomintang, that is, the attitude of the entire program from the War of Resistance to the founding of the country.From a historical point of view, the split ten years ago, who belonged to the active, who belonged to the passive, and why they broke up, are already well-known historical facts.At that time, whoever tore up the common program (the Declaration of the First National Congress of the Kuomintang) and thus started a civil war, sir, should be able to say.Remembering the past is the guide for the future. Therefore, the crux of the future is not only to have a program, but also to ensure that no party is allowed to tear up this program. This is the most central thing.There was no Eighth Route Army ten years ago, and an Eighth Route Army came out because of the split between the two parties. From this, it can be deduced that even if the Eighth Route Army or even the Communist Party is disbanded today, who can guarantee that there will be no more Eighth Route Army and no Communist Party in China? You need to know this Things don't just happen out of thin air, they aren't really created by some Communist leaders out of their own minds, or they are really so-called "out of line with the national conditions", but they are actually the result of the country's political and economic phenomena.As for the second question of your husband—on the one hand, the authorities feel uneasy, and on the other hand, the people demand reform. I think it is the same nature as above. The crux is that the Kuomintang recognizes and implements a common program.

To achieve this goal undoubtedly requires the efforts of all parties. Members and leaders of the two parties, as well as all people from all walks of life in the country who care about the future of the nation, should work together to promote and implement this program.The affairs of the two parties are not the private affairs of the two parties, but the public affairs of the people. The husband cares deeply about this and admires it very much.Asking questions from afar, briefly stating my contempt, and Shang Xi went on to teach them.This is the answer.Salute to the gift of national liberation!

Mao Zedong February 15 According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Fan Changjiang (1909-1970), a native of Neijiang, Sichuan.In February 1937, as a reporter for "Ta Kung Pao", he went to Xi'an and Yan'an to interview. Mao Zedong met him in Yan'an. [2] Refers to the conclusion made by Mao Zedong at the National Congress of the Communist Party of China on May 8, 1937, entitled "Struggle to Win Millions of People into the Anti-Japanese National United Front".