Chapter 4 Letter to Cai Hesen[1]

(January 21, 1921) Brother Hesen: The letter [2] was forwarded from Zisheng [3] at the end of the year.Historical materialism is the basis of our party's philosophy. This is a fact, unlike rationalism, which cannot be proven and is easily shaken.I have no research, but I now do not admit that the principle of anarchy is a verifiable principle, and there are very strong reasons.The political organization of a factory (factory production, distribution, management, etc.) is different from the political organization of a country and the world only in size, not in nature.Syndicalism regards the political organization of the country and the political organization of the factory as opposite sexes, and claims that it belongs to another kind of person for another matter.What's more, there is still a very necessary reason in terms of means that the revolution cannot be launched, the revolution cannot be protected, and the revolution cannot be completed unless it is in power.Your letter is very insightful, and I have not a word of disapproval.At the first level of the party, Mr. Chen Zhongfu[4] and others are already organizing.On the first floor of publications, the "Communist Party" [5] published in Shanghai, you can get it wherever you want, and it is quite worthy of the word "clear banner" (the manifesto is Zhongfu's work).Details will be reported later.

Brother Zedong In the south of the city on January 21, ten years According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Cai Hesen (1895-1931), a native of Yongfeng Town, Xiangxiang, Hunan (now part of Shuangfeng County).One of the founders of Xinmin Society, he was working and studying in France at that time. [2] Refers to the September 16, 1920 letter to Mao Zedong that Cai and Sento Xiao Zisheng brought back from France, in which he further elaborated on his views on organizing the Communist Party and other issues.

[3] Zisheng, namely Xiao Zisheng (1894-1976), was born in Xiangxiang, Hunan.One of the founders of Xinmin Society.In 1919, he went to France for a work-study program.Returned to Beijing from Paris in the winter of 1920, when Mao Zedong had already returned to Changsha. [4] Chen Zhongfu, that is, Chen Duxiu, see note [2] on page 2 of this volume. [5] "Communist Party" is a publication founded in November 1920 by the Shanghai Initiating Group of the Communist Party of China.