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(Extract from Wah Tsz Yat Po, Hong Kong, 25th April, 1927)
Manifesto by Tain Tai Kwan drocating resistance to
Communism and waking up all members of the Kuomintang.
Our recent determined action in expelling the
Communists was absolutely inevitable and was not done in
revenge for any private grudge borne by any individual or
section of our Party. The issue was one of policy and
principles between the whole Kuomintang and the whole
Communist Party. It might be styled a life and death
fight between the two parties. The defeat of a party
means its death and also the death of its members. Every
party has its own doctrines, policy and constitution.
A true member of a party must surrender his individuality,
must merge himself in the party, and cannot act independently.
He must have no existence other than as a member of the party.
Any victory over a party which does not exterminate every
member of the party cannot claim to be a real victory, and any
defeat of a party wherein some of the members still survive
cannot claim to be a real defeat.
It was by proceeding in this spirit that Soviet
Russia annihilated the White Russians, Turkey the Communist
Party, and Bulgaria the Labour and Peasant Party, and it is by the same way that the Chinese Communists hope to deal
with our Kuomintang and its members. Now the Chinese Kuo-
mintang and the Chinese Communist Party have declared war.
The result will be the destruction either of the Communists or of the Kuomintang. Now is the critical time for our Kuomintang and the individuals who are its members. The
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survial or destruction of our Kuomintang and its members
depends