October 1, 1949 to October 7, 1976: Twenty-seven Years of Socialism in the PRC, Thirty years of Reaction
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Today, in our remembrance of the founding of the PRC, we should recognize two principle historical developments demonstrated to us by studying the experience of the Chinese proletariat during the Chinese Revolution from the initiation of the people’s war, to the founding of the PRC October 1, 1949, to military bureaucrat coup of the Teng-Hua clique October 7, 1976: that seizing state power is the fundamental question for the proletarian party, and that the great poison weeds of revisionism are serious dangers to the achievement of state power and to its maintenance.
Without state power the working class has nothing. This was the fundamental question for the Chinese revolution, and indeed the primary question for Bolshevik revolution that preceded it; namely the seizure of state power through violence. Chairman Mao summed the question up: “According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and
retain state power must have a strong army.”
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