The Founding of an Army Page #2

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So was I.

Which month?

December.

I'm August.

Call me big brother.

Like hell I will.

What are you talking about?

This would be suicidal.

Wang Jingwei doesn't know what to do.

Wuhan

has a storm on the horizon.

Let us hear Comrade Chen Duxiu's opinion.

The forces amassed by the workers

and peasants over the years

were slaughtered by more than half

on a single day.

As the Party's general secretary,

I feel the most pain.

The Communist Party

and the Nationalist Party had an agreement

to form a united front

in the revolution together.

But Chiang Kai-shek now uses

the weapons supplied by the Comintern

to slaughter us.

We have to arm ourselves

and fight this aggression.

Indeed we must fight.

Our blood must not be shed in vain.

Confronting the enemy head on

puts us at a disadvantage.

But giving them free reign

is out of the question.

We have only one option:

Hand over our weapons immediately.

Our weapons?

Why give them our weapons?

Be quiet!

Why give them our weapons?

Because we don't have a lot of guns

to hand over in the first place.

Since we hardly have any guns already,

what's the harm in handing them all over?

Once we give them up

we become like sheep

that anyone could slaughter at will.

Wang Jingwei and his Wuhan government

are sympathetic to communists

and the revolution.

If all the armed workers and peasants

in this country

handed over all their weapons,

Chiang Kai-shek would have no excuse to harm us

and Wang Jingwei would try his best to help us.

China faces a crisis

and our hope should continue to rest in...

continue to rest in...

Wang Jingwei now wants to get in bed

with Chiang Kai-shek

and this is their conspiracy!

We can't trust them!

What happened?

Comrade Li Dazhao

was murdered

by warlords.

Not a single rifle can be surrendered.

If we do, our fate as communists

will be the same as Li Dazhao!

Zedong, it's not the turn

of the Hu'nan representatives to speak!

Can we rely on the Wang Jingwei government?

No, we can't!

And it would be suicide for us

to hand over our guns!

We have only one way to go

and that is armed struggle!

We once criticized Sun Yat-sen

for engaging exclusively in armed campaigns.

But what about us?

We reach for the pen and ignore the rifle.

And in the end we will only usher in a massacre.

Yes.

You are just being an alarmist!

Chen Duxiu,

you and Mr. Li walked out in front of the revolution

and now you want to surrender our arms. Why?

I will do it to protect the working class

and grow the revolutionary forces.

This is just some contrived measure!

How many workers are there in China?

Very few.

Our country is mainly comprised of peasants.

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