Mao Tse-tung

ON COALITION GOVERNMENT


From the
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung,
Foreign Languages Press
Peking 1967

First Edition 1965
Second Printing 1967

Vol. III, pp. 205-70.


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@cruzio.com (June 1997)


C O N T E N T S

I.

The Fundamental Demands of the Chinese People

205

II.

The International and the Domestic Situation

206

III.

Two Lines in the Anti-Japanese War

208


The Key to China's Problems
History Follows a Tortuous Course
The People's War
Two Battle Fronts
China's Liberated Areas
The Kuomintang Areas
A Contrast
Who Is "Sabotaging the War of Resistance and Endangering the State"?
"Disobediance to Governmental and Military Orders"
The Danger of Civil War
Negotiations
Two Prospects

208
210
213
217
219
220
222
223
224
225
226
226

IV.

The Policy of the Chinese Communist Party

227


Our General Program
Our Specific Program
228
235

1.
 
2.

3.
4.
5.
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7.
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9.
  10.

Destroy the Japanese Aggressors Completely, Allow No Compromise
  Halfway
Abolish the Kuomintang One-Party Dictatorship, Establish a Democratic
  Coalition Government
Freedom for the People
Unity of the People
The People's Army
The Land Problem
The Problem of Industry
The Problem of Culture, Education, and the Intellectuals
The Problem of the National Minorities
The Problem of Foreign Policy

239

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247
252
254
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256

The Tasks in the Kuomintang Area
The Tasks in the Japanese-Occupied Areas
The Tasks in the Liberated Areas
258
260
261

V.
 

Let the Whole Party Unite and Fight to Accomplish Its
Tasks!

263

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