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” Ch'en Tu-hsiu was the chief spokesman against Maring's views. He stressed that the KMT was principally the political party of the bourgeoisie. Simply because there were some non-bourgeois elements within its ranks did not mean that we could overlook the fact that its basic character was bourgeois.…Nevertheless, Ch'en said that if this were an unalterable, Comintern decision, we would have to abide by it. The most we could do was to voice our dissenting opinions.…Ch'en stipulated that if Dr Sun revoked the rule forcing people joining the KMT to take an oath of allegiance to him personally and to sign the oath with their flgerprints, and if he reorganized the KMT so that it was based on democratic principles, CCP members would join it. If these conditions were not met, Ch'en said he would oppose joining the KMT even though the Comintern ordered it.”

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