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share of the responsibility for carrying out the work
of the revolution, and to this end placed the responsibility in the hands of the members of our Party.
Therefore the 1st All-China Grand Representative
Conference was convened and the Committee System was
introduced. From that Conference several tens of our
members were elected to form the Central Executive Committee
to be responsible for directing the course of the
Revolution. In such a sy stem, the power of all members
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of the Party is centralised in the several
hundreds of representatives in the All-China Grand Representative Conference, and from them again, in the several tens of members of the Central Executive Committee. And as circumstances may not permit all members of the Central Executive Committee to remain in one place, their power is again concentrated in the Secretariat and the Political Council. But such a concentration of power is neither like that which prevailed under a feudal system nor that which prevails under a Dictator. It is a concentration on the Democratic System and is called a Democratic Centralisation System. In such a system, though ultimately the power is concentrated in the hands of a few, yet the elements of power are seated originally in all members of the Party, and our members must bear this point clearly in mind. Therefore at the 1st All-China Grand Representative Conference, rules were made that the Party should have no more Presidents and that the Central Executive Committee should be the only guiding authority. All sorts of business must be placed under the direction of this guiding authority, and this should never be allowed to be split into two so as to give rise
to dissension.
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