" On Protracted War " (13) (Chinese and English)
On Protracted War
img0 What is political mobilization? The first is to tell the army and the people the political purpose of the war.
What does political mobilization mean? First, it means telling the army and the people about the political aim of the war.
It is necessary for every soldier and civilian to see why the war must be fought and how it concerns him.
Only by telling all the soldiers and civilians can the upsurge of resistance to Japan be caused, and tens of millions of people can unite and contribute everything to the war.
The political aim of the war is “to drive out Japanese imperialism and build a new China of freedom and equality”; we must proclaim this aim to everybody, to all soldiers and civilians, before we can create an anti-Japanese upsurge and unite hundreds of millions as one man to contribute their all to the war.
Second,It is not enough to just state the purpose, but also explain the steps and policies to achieve this goal, that is, there must be a political program.
Secondly, it is not enough merely to explain the aim to them; the steps and policies for its attainment must also be given, that is, there must be a political programme.
"There is another "Guidelines for the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Founding of the Nation". They should be popularized among the army and the people, and all the army and people should be mobilized and put into practice.
We already have the Ten-Point Programme for Resisting Japan and Saving the Nation and also the Programme of Armed Resistance and National Reconstruction; we should popularize both of them in the army and among the people and mobilize everyone to carry them out.
Without a clear and specific political program, it is impossible to mobilize the whole army and the whole people to resist Japan to the end.
Without a clear-cut, concrete political programme it is impossible to mobilize all the armed forces and the whole people to carry the war against Japan through to the end.
How to mobilize? According to the mouth, rely on leaflets, newspapers, books, dramas, movies, schools, mass organizations, and cadres.
Thirdly, how should we mobilize them? By word of mouth, by leaflets and bulletins, by newspapers, books and pamphlets, through plays and films, through schools, through the mass organizations and through our cadres.
Some of them are a drop in the ocean, and the methods are not in line with the tastes of the people, and the spirits are alienated from the people. We must actually change them.
What has been done so far in the Kuomintang areas is only a drop in the ocean, and moreover it has been done in a manner ill-suited to the people's tastes and in a spirit uncongenial to them; this must be drastically changed.
Secondly, it is not enough to mobilize once. The political mobilization of the War of Resistance against Japan is frequent.
Fourthly, to mobilize once is not enough; political mobilization for the War of Resistance must be continuous.
is not to recite the political program to the common people. No one listens to this recitation; to contact the development of the war, contact The lives of soldiers and ordinary people have turned the political mobilization of war into a regular movement.
Our job is not to recite our political programme to the people, for nobody will listen to such recitations; we must link the political mobilization for the war with developments in the war and with the life of the soldiers and the people, and make it a continuous movement.
This is a great event. The war must first be won by it.
This is a matter of immense importance on which our victory in the war primarily depends.
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