reconstituted 4 the Communist Party USA. We congratulate you warmly on this
great victory of the American working class and of the Marxist movement. In his
past activity, Comrade Browder has rendered many services to the struggle of the
Chinese people, which deserve our gratitude. But his whole revisionistcapitulationist line (which found its full expression in Comrade Browder’s book
Tehran) essentially reflected the influence of the reactionary capitalist clique in
the United States within the American workers movement. This reactionary
capitalist clique is now attempting to extend its influence in China too and is
supporting the erroneous, anti-national, anti-popular, anti-democratic policy of

the reactionary clique within the Guomindang, putting the Chinese people in
grave danger of civil war and causing damage to the interests of the two great
nations, China and the United States, during and after the war.5 The victory of
the American working class and of its vanguard, the American Communists, over
the revisionist and capitulationist line of Comrade Browder will undoubtedly
represent a great contribution to the war against Japan, which is being waged at
present by the American and Chinese peoples and to the great cause of building a
peaceful and democratic world after the war.
Chairman of the Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong
Notes
issue of Jiefang ribao. Text in italics, below, reflects the original text, which was removed in the revised
version published in Xuanji in the 1950s; for more details see “Variants” in “Note on Sources and
Conventions,” above, pp. lxi–lxvi.
Capitulationism and Re-establishing the Communist Party → Telegram to Comrade William Z. Foster

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Comrade Mao Zedong’s Congratulatory
Telegram to the Communist Party USA
on Its Overcoming Capitulationism and
Re-establishing the Communist Party 1
(July 29, 1945)
(New China News Agency, Yan’an, July 30) On July 26, the Communist Political Association of the
United States held a meeting and decided to rectify the revisionist-capitulationist line of its former
chairman, Comrade [Earl] Browder, and to re-establish the Communist Party USA. Before the meeting,
the secretary of the Communist Political Association of the United States, Comrade Foster, sent a telegram
to Comrade Mao Zedong. On July 29, Comrade Mao Zedong telegraphed congratulations to Comrade
Foster. The texts of the two telegrams follow: [Comrade Foster’s telegram is omitted.—Editors.]
Comrade Foster and the Central Committee of the Communist Party USA:
We are happy to hear that the special conference of the Communist Association 2
of the United States has decided to reject the revisionist-capitulationist line 3 of
Comrade Browder and to re-establish a Marxist leadership and that it has

2. Communist Association → Communist Political Association
interests of the people of the two nations


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Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji, Vol. 9, pp. 303–4, where it is reproduced from the July 31, 1945,

1. Comrade Mao Zedong’s Congratulatory Telegram to the Communist Party USA on Its Overcoming

3. The revisionist-capitulationist line → The revisionist, namely, the capitulationist line

4. Reconstituted → Restored

5. The interests of the two great nations, China and the United States, during and after war → The