Closing Address at the Congress
(February 1, 1934)
Comrades! After eleven days, our congress has reached a completely successful and victorious conclusion! (Applause.) We have already decided upon the
policy and plans for the victory of the revolution in all China! (Applause.) The
victory of the revolution in all China is in our hands! (Applause) We will smash
the "Encirclement and Suppression" of the imperialist Guomindang and overthrow the imperialist Guomindang. Our policy and plans have already been
decided! (Applause.) The problem now is that we must carry out this policy and
these plans 100 percent! We must have the courage to carry them out resolutely;
we must have the courage to do it. We must raise the enthusiasm of the entire
personnel of the soviets for their work. We must heighten the activism of the
broad masses. Our responsibility is very great. We must assume the burden
placed on us by the congress, which is a great revolutionary task. We must
enthusiastically, resolutely, and courageously assume this burden and march forward. We must definitely carry this burden to our goal! (Applause.) Thoroughly
smash the Fifth "Encirclement and Suppression," overthrow the imperialist
Guomindang. and strive for the victory of the revolution in the whole country!
Victory to the bourgeois-democratic revolution in the whole country! Victory to
the democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants in the whole country!
These are our goals. We must assume the burden entrusted to us by the congress
and CIUT)' it to this destination. We will assuredly reach this destination and reach
it quickly! (Applause.)
But when the burden of the revolution has been carried to this destination,
will that be the end? Is the workers' and peasants' democratic dictatorship our
final goal? Comrades! It is not the end. nor is it the final goal. The burden of the
revolution must be carried farther still. Today we are going to point out this
destination. It is the socialist revolution of the dictatorship of the proletariat. We
must not only complete the democratic revolution, but also transform the revolution into the socialist revolution of the future! We must not only overthrow the
rule of the imperialist Guomindang and destroy the landlord class. We must also
start to prepare now, prepare so that in the future, when the appropriate time
This speech was first published in Hongse Zhonghua, Special Issue no. 7, February 3,
1934, on the Second National Soviet Congress. We have translated it from Mao Zedongji,
Vol. 4, pp. 295-96, where it is reproduced from this source

comes, we can destroy the capitalist system, destroy the system of exploitation of
man by man, and in the end, as the Soviet Union is now doing, finally enter
communism, apply the principle of from each according to his ability and to each
according to his needs, and enter the freest, brightest, and greatest world. Only
when that time comes will there be final liberation for mankind and final victory
for mankind!
The Second National Soviet Congress comes to a close today. We must fulfill
our responsibility; we must bravely carry forward the great task of the revolution
and strive for our final victory!
Long live the soviets!
Long live the victory of the revolution!
Long live the victory of the revolution in all China!
Long live the victory of the revolution throughout the world!
Long live socialism!
Long live communism!
(Cheers and applause that shake the entire hall.)