TSOU LU AND REVOLUTION
5 December 1925

[Text] Tsou Lu [6760 7627] said: "Our Koumintang comrades must be aware.
You must not obliterate everything just because others say that the old comrades are non-revolutionary. Had our comrades not persevered after every
setback, there would not have been the republic. Had the campaigns to fight
Yuan [5913], defend the law, punish the bandits, and attack the North not
been victorious, there would not have been today's history. Even in the
burning of the commercial groups, the masterpiece work of the communists, we
still had to rely on Yang [2799] and Liu [0491]. To hit Yang and Liu, we
still had to rely on Hsu [6079] and Liang [27332. Even the restraining of
Hsu and Liang today, it is still the old comrades." Excellent! Mr Tsou!
Please go ahead and revolutionize! Actually no one has the skill to obliterate the revolutionary old comrades! You must know that "the republic" and
"history" alone do not count. We must prosecute the revolution now; we
must prosecute the revolution in the future. As for old comrades Yang and
Liu, or old comrades Hsu and Liang, I think it is better not to give so many
examples.
CHENG-CHIH CHOU-PAO, No 1, Canton Cheng-chih Chou-pao Press, 5 December 1925