Mao is no margarine Communist. In a pamphlet entitled "The New Democracy"
(1940), Mao carefully explained how he intends to rule China. The pamphlet is a clear statement of the "soft" line which the Reds use in a "given historic phase," i.e., until they are strong enough to use brass knuckles. China, says Mao, is still largely a "feudal" country. Before it can have its Communist revolution against the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie must first have its revolution against "feudalism." These
two separate steps (which occurred centuries apart in Europe) can, in China, be blended into a continuous process. But the first step is not democracy in the Western sense: "The coming democratic republic of China should he nothing other than a democratic republic of the dictatorship of all anti-imperialist, anti-feudal sections."
Because China needs industrial developing, Mao is ready to collaborate with small
and medium capitalists.' But bourgeois "diehards" are out. ("Goodness, do we not know what they would do with the destiny of our nation?. . .")) Land mustbe "equalized'" and capital "controlled." Warns Mao: "Whoever dares to turn in the opposite direction will ... get his head broken against the wall . . . The sun of the new China appears on the horizon,
we clap our hands and hail it. Raise your fists, new China will be our!"
Plain Chinese, who have fled Communist areas by the millions, have observed the "new democracy" at work in every visage the Communists have taken. The Chinese say that the Reds have a "three head policy." The first stage is the "nod head," when they are polite to the people and want to make friends. The second stage is the "shake head," when they begin to refuse the people's requests The third stage comes when they are in full control; it is called the "chop head."
The Charming Earth. Mao Tse-tung will have to chop off many a Chinese
head in trying to rule China, probablythe biggest task ever taken on by Communism. As he has put it, "A revolution is no invitation to a banquet ."
The Chinese people hve borne, driven off or absorbed, many a conqueror-the Hun's and Mongols, the Tartars and Manchus. But the conqueror who, in the name of a grandiose world conspiracy, prepared to take over China last week could rival all of these. Mao Tse-tung knew that. Once, while flying over a civil war battlefield on which his men fought blindly for what they thought was the end of misery, Mao had written a poem. Excerpt:
In clear weather
The earth is so charming
Like a red-faced girl clothed in white.
Such is the charm of these rivers and mountains
Calling innumerable heroes to vie with
each other in pursuing her.
The emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely cultured,
The emperors Tai Tsung and Tai Tsu were lacking in feeling,
Genghis Khan knew only how to bend his bow at the eagles,
These all belong to the past--only to- day ore there men of feeling.
Mao was a man of feeling, all right, but as tough and tyrannical as any emperor who had preceded him in the rule
of his great and long-suffering land.
