毛泽东选集/以自卫战争粉碎蒋介石的进攻

#§ Only after completely smashing Chiang's offensive in a war of self-defence can the Chinese people regain peace.

# §Although Chiang Kai-shek has U.S. aid, the feelings of the people are against him, the morale of his troops is low, and his economy is in difficulty.

#§ As for us, although we have no foreign aid, the feelings of the people are for us, the morale of our troops is high, and we can handle our economy.

#§ Therefore, we can defeat Chiang Kai-shek.

# §The whole Party should be fully confident of this.

#§3. #§ For defeating Chiang Kai-shek the general method of fighting is mobile warfare.

# §Therefore, the temporary abandonment of certain places or cities is not only unavoidable but also necessary.

# §Certain places or cities are temporarily abandoned in order to win final victory, which would otherwise be impossible.

#§ We must make all Party members and all the people in the Liberated Areas understand this so that they will be mentally prepared.

#§4. #§ In order to smash Chiang Kai-shek's offensive we must cooperate closely with the masses of the people and win over all who can be won over.

#§ In the rural areas, on the one hand, we should resolutely solve the land problem, rely firmly on the farm labourers and poor peasants and unite with the middle peasants; on the other hand, when solving the land problem, we should distinguish the ordinary rich peasants and middle and small landlords from the traitors, bad gentry and local tyrants.

#§We should be more strict in our treatment of the traitors, bad gentry and local tyrants, and more lenient in our treatment of the rich peasants and middle and small landlords.

#§ In places where the land problem has already been solved, we should change to a moderate attitude towards the landlord class as a whole, with the exception of a few reactionaries.

# §In order to reduce the number of hostile elements and to consolidate the Liberated Areas, we should help all those landlords who have difficulty in making a living and induce runaway landlords to return and give them an opportunity to earn a living.

# §In the cities, besides uniting with the working class, the petty bourgeoisie and all progressives, we should take care to unite with all the middle elements and isolate the reactionaries.

#§ Among the Kuomintang troops, we should win over all the possible opponents of civil war and isolate the bellicose elements.

#§ We must use our manpower and material resources with the utmost economy and do everything possible to avoid waste.

# §We must investigate and clean up the petty graft which has appeared in some places.

#§ We must promote the extensive planting of cotton and encourage every family to spin and every village to weave.

#§ We should start to promote this even in the Northeast.

#§ In the spheres of finance and supplies, we must meet the material needs of the war of self-defence and at the same time lighten the burden on the people, so that there will be some improvement in the livelihood of the people in our Liberated Areas even under war-time conditions.

#§ To sum up, we rely entirely on our own efforts, and our position is invincible; this is the very opposite of Chiang Kai-shek who depends entirely on foreign countries.

# §We live plainly and work hard, we take care of the needs of both the army and the people; this is the very opposite of the situation in Chiang Kai-shek's areas, where those at the top are corrupt and degenerate, while the people under them are destitute.

#§ Under these circumstances, we shall surely be victorious.