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The Revolutionary Process
mocracy would be part of the worldwide proletarian-socialist
revolution in which China could win her freedom from im•
perialism only with the aid of international socialism repre•
sented by the Soviet Union. Thus the New Democracy aimed
to develop a type of "democratic" state suited to China's semi•
colonial situation, ruled by an alliance of several revolution•
ary classes (unlike the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in Rus•
sia) , before proceeding to a second stage of socialism.
In form the New Democracy should have a government of
"democratic centralism," based on elections in which all par•
ticipated but graded through a hierarchy of people's assem•
blies from the village on up to a national congress. In eco•
nomic life the new government should own and operate large•
scale and monopoly activities including big banks, big indus•
tries, railways, and the like, in accord with the declaration of
the first Kuomintang Congress of 1924. On the land the
New Democracy would confiscate and distribute the holdings
of big landlords in order to realize Sun Yat-sen's slogan, "Land
to those who till it." By turning the land into the private
property of the peasants, this reform, said Mao, would pro•
duce something quite different from a socialist agricultural
system.
In the cultural revolution, said Mao, the May Fourth
Movement had been chiefly significant for the introduction
munist cultural thought. For the current phase the
new culture should not try to be socialist, since socialism was
not yet achieved but should be based upon nationalism,
science, and the masses of the people. Thus MaoTse-tung
toward his non-Marxist audience blandly claimed to inherit
the mantle of Sun Yat-sen and May Fourth, while for Marxists
he put himself on the level of Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin as an
original contributor munist theory. In actual fact
Mao's "innovations" had been in the realm of practice, not
theory. All his dicta