毛泽东选集/中国共产党在民族战争中的地位

#The prospects ahead of us are bright.# Not only is it necessary for us to defeat Japanese imperialism and build a new China, but we are certainly capable of achieving these aims.

# However, there is a difficult road ahead between the present and the bright future.

# In the struggle for a new China, the Chinese Communist Party and the whole people must fight the Japanese aggressors in a planned way and can defeat them only through a long war.

# We have already said a good deal about the various problems relating to the war.

# We have summed up the experience gained since its outbreak and appraised the present situation, defined the urgent tasks confronting the whole nation and explained the reasons for sustaining a long war by means of a long-term national united front against Japan and the methods for doing so, and we have analysed the international situation.

# What problems then remain?

# Comrades, there is one more problem, namely, what role the Chinese Communist Party should play in the national war, or how Communists should understand their own role, strengthen themselves and close their ranks in order to be able to lead this war to victory and not to defeat.

#§Can a Communist, who is an internationalist, at the same time be a patriot?

# The specific content of patriotism is determined by historical conditions.

# There is the "patriotism" of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler, and there is our patriotism.

# Communists must resolutely oppose the "patriotism" of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler.

# The Communists of Japan and Germany are defeatists with regard to the wars being waged by their countries.

# To bring about the defeat of the Japanese aggressors and of Hitler by every possible means is in the interests of the Japanese and the German people, and the more complete the defeat the better.

# This is what the Japanese and German Communists should be doing and what they are doing.

# For the wars launched by the Japanese aggressors and Hitler are harming their own people as well as the people of the world.

# China's case is different, because she is the victim of aggression.

# Chinese Communists must therefore combine patriotism with internationalism.

# We are at once internationalists and patriots, and our slogan is, "Fight to defend the motherland against the aggressors."

# For us defeatism is a crime and to strive for victory in the War of Resistance is an inescapable duty.

# For only by fighting in defence of the motherland can we defeat the aggressors and achieve national liberation.

# And only by achieving national liberation will it be possible for the proletariat and other working people to achieve their own emancipation.

# The victory of China and the defeat of the invading imperialists will help the people of other countries.

# For this reason Communists must use their initiative to the full, march bravely and resolutely to the battle front of the war of national liberation and train their guns on the Japanese aggressors.

# For this reason, immediately after the Incident of September 18, 1931, our Party issued its call to resist the Japanese aggressors by a war of national defence, and later proposed a national united front against Japan, ordered the Red Army to reorganize as part of the anti-Japanese National Revolutionary Army and to march to the front, and instructed Party members to take their place in the forefront of the war and defend the motherland to the last drop of their blood.