The Victory of the New Democratic Revolution

The Victory of the New Democratic Revolution

A Tragic Journey — The Exploration of Revival in Modern China

The Chinese nation has a continuous civilization history of more than 5,000 years and has created a profound and extensive Chinese culture. However, while Western countries were breaking free from the shackles of feudalism and making rapid progress in modern times, China remained under the declining feudal autocratic rule, lagging behind in economic, political, and cultural aspects. After the Opium War, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, suffering national humiliation, people's hardships, and the tarnishing of civilization. The Chinese nation faced an unprecedented catastrophe.

Since modern times, the historical task of the Chinese people has been to strive for national independence, people's liberation, national prosperity, and people's happiness.

In the quest for revival, countless patriots and heroes fought tirelessly, sacrificing their lives and engaging in various attempts, but ultimately failed to change the social nature of old China and the tragic fate of the Chinese people.

The humiliating years and arduous explorations repeatedly proved a conclusion: in semi-colonial and semi-feudal modern China, the capitalist road was not feasible. To achieve national independence, people's liberation, national prosperity, and people's happiness, a new path had to be found.

The Victorious Journey — The New Democratic Revolution

In 1917, the sound of the cannon fire from the October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China. China's advanced elements saw in the scientific truth of Marxism-Leninism the solution to China's problems.

In 1921, amidst the great awakening of the Chinese people and nation, and with the close integration of Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese workers' movement, the Communist Party of China (CPC) was born. From then on, the struggle of the Chinese people for national independence, people's liberation, national prosperity, and people's happiness had a core leadership. On the basis of the Chinese people's struggle for survival in modern times, the CPC, during the leadership of the New Democratic Revolution, gradually explored a new democratic revolutionary path, which involved encircling the cities from the countryside, seizing power through armed struggle, and finally achieving nationwide victory.

After 28 years of bloody battles and determined struggle, the CPC led the Chinese people of all ethnic groups through the stages of the Great Revolution, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation, finally achieving the great victory of the New Democratic Revolution in 1949 and establishing the People's Republic of China.

The New Democratic Revolution was a democratic revolution led by the proletariat, based on the alliance of workers and peasants, and supported by the masses of the people, opposing imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism. The basic national conditions of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society determined that the Chinese revolution had to be carried out in two stages: the democratic revolution and the socialist revolution. The first step was to change the semi-colonial and semi-feudal social structure, transforming Chinese society into an independent and democratic society. The second step was to advance the revolution further, establishing a socialist society. The New Democratic Revolution was a necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution was the inevitable trend of the New Democratic Revolution. Only by completing the first revolution could the second revolution be completed, and these two revolutionary stages had to be connected.

The establishment of the People's Republic of China completely ended the history of old China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, completely ended the history of the exploitation of the vast majority of laboring people by a handful of exploiters, completely ended the state of disunity and fragmentation in old China, and completely abolished the unequal treaties imposed on China by the great powers and all the privileges of imperialism in China. This marked a great leap for China from thousands of years of feudal autocracy to a people's democracy.

The establishment of the People's Republic of China created the preconditions for the transition from New Democracy to socialism, fundamentally changed the direction of China's social development, and presented a bright prospect and realistic path for national prosperity and national revival.

In the course of revolutionary struggle, the Chinese Communists, represented mainly by Comrade Mao Zedong, combined the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism with the specific realities of China, theoretically summarized a series of original experiences accumulated through arduous exploration and enormous sacrifices, and pioneered the correct revolutionary path of encircling the cities from the countryside and seizing power through armed struggle. They founded Mao Zedong Thought, which provided the correct direction for achieving victory in the New Democratic Revolution.