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I. The Communist Party
The force at the core leading our cause forward is the Chinese Communist
Party. The theoretical basis guiding our thinking is Marxism- Leninism.
--Opening address at the First Session of the First National People's
Congress of the People's Republic of China (September 15, 1954).
Without the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party, without the
Chinese Communists as the mainstay of the Chinese people, China
can never achieve independence and liberation, or industrialization
and the modernization of her agriculture.
--"On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol.
III, p. 318.
The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole
Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot
be victorious.
-- Talk at the general reception for the dele- gates to the Third
National Congress of the New Democratic Youth League of China (May
25, 1957).
A well-disciplined Party armed with the theory of Marxism-Leninism,
using the method of self-criticism and linked with the masses of
the people; an army under the leadership of such a Party; a united
front of all revolutionary classes and all revolutionary groups
under the leadership of such a Party -- these are the three main
weapons with which we have defeated the enemy.
-- "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship" (June 30, 1949), Selected
Works, Vol. IV, p. 422.
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement
to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and a knowledge
of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.
-- "The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in the National War"
(October 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 208.
Our Party has laid down the general line and general policy of
the Chinese revolution as well as various specific lines for work
and specific policies. However, while many comrades remember our
Party's specific lines for work and specific policies, they often
forget its general line and general policy. If we actually forget
the Party's general line and general policy, then we shall be blind,
half-baked, muddle-headed revolutionaries, and when we carry out
a specific line for work and a specific policy, we shall lose our
bearings and vacillate now to the left and now to the right, and
the work will suffer. --"Speech at a Conference of Cadres in the
Shansi-Suiyuan Liberated Area" (April 1, 1948), Selected Works,
Vol. IV, p. 238.*
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