14. Comrade Mao Zedong proposed a resolution as follows: The movements
of the popular masses are closely linked to politics. At present, the peasant
movements in the various provinces should pay the utmost attention to the areas
that the revolutionary armies will traverse during the Northern Expedition, such
as Jiangxi, Hubei, Zhili, Shandong, and Henan.3 Resolution Presented to the Seventeenth
Meeting of the Standing Committee of the
Guomindang Central Executive Committee (April 2, 1926)1 4. Draft resolution put forward by the Propaganda Department regarding the fact
that the Jiling Book Company has been falsely making use of the late Director
General's name in issuing a little pamphlet called On Socialism, and whether or
not this should be forbidden.

Explanation: The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee has recently discovered that there is a so-called Jiling Book Company, of no fixed
address and with no person responsible for publication, which has put out a little
booklet entitled On Socialism, passing it off as a posthumous work by Director
General Sun. Stealing a few sentences from the Director General's lectures on
"People's Livelihood,"2 they have cut them into fragments and then cobbled
these bits together into a poorly written and unsystematic work. It seems that at
present our party is using the Director General's testament and all of the works
he has left us as an invisible Director General. The party's policies and actions
are rigorously controlled by this testament and these works. Consequently,
whenever any publication impinges on the Director General's actions and words,
it must first be checked by the Central Propaganda Department before it can be
issued, and is therefore subject to very tight procedures. By issuing such a
publication as this, the book society in question is manifestly engaging in sordid

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Notes

Our source for this document is Zhongguo Guomindang diyi, er ci quanguo daibiao dahui
huiyi shiliao, Vol. 1, pp. 516-19.
1. This was a special enlarged meeting, including not only members of the Standing
Committee, but all department heads, as well as members of the Central Supervisory
Committee. Mao Zedong, in his capacity as acting head of the Propaganda Department,
was therefore a full participant with voting rights, and not merely in attendance as on
March 16, 1926. He put forward, on the other hand, only one resolution instead of five as
on the previous occasion. Proposals 1 to 3, 5, and 6, in which he was not involved, are
omitted here.
2. I.e., from part III of the Three People's Principles.

3. The significance of this fragment lies in the fact that it shows how Mao foresaw, and
perhaps contributed to, the upsurge of peasant activism that accompanied the subsequent
progress of the Northern Expedition.