can create Party organizations» as spoken by Chairman ·Mao are in line with the fundamental principle of «the Party commands the gun.» Only with the Party and the correct leadership of the Party could there be guns and armies, and with guns and armies, we could more properly develop and strengthen the Party organization. HowPver, Lin Piao put the cart before the borse. He said nothing about this fundamental principle of «the Party commands the gun», the premise of «the gun must not be allowed to command the Party» and the task of setting up locai Party organizations in newly opened up areas entrusted our army by the Party that should be carried out under the absolute leadership of the Party, but talked boastingly of «the Party grows out of the barre! of a gun.» Very evidently this is the undiluted reactionary fallacy of «the gun commands the Party.» This reactionary fallacy of «the Party grows out of the barre! of a gun» was cast forth by Lin Piao in May 1961. Its vita! point was to negate the leadership of the Party over the army and piace the gun above the Party in a vain attempt to lead our army astray and turn it into a tool for this bourgeois careerist and conspirator to restore capitalism. Lin Piao had iold bis swom con!ederates: «It is necessary to emulate Chiang Kai-shek ... » These words EPCPOS· ed his dark secret. He vainly attempted to repeat the tricks played by Chiang Kai-shek who used the army as bis tool tor usurping leadership in the Party and the country. He wanted to stage, like the dictator and public enemy Chiang Kai-shek, a counter-revolutionary armed coup d'etat to set up a fascist dynasty of the Lin family in China for ali-round restoration of capitalism. Our army is the army o! the proletariat and is loyal to the Party and the people. We must thoroughly criticize the counter-revolutionary crime of Lin Piao in negating the leadership of the Party and using the gun to command the Party, We must consciously obey the abi;olute leadership of the Party over the army, always uphold the character of the people's army and play the part of a reliabl~ tool for implementing the line of the Party. The Gun Must Not Be Allowed To Commànd the Party by fighters Chao Kuang-lin and Chang Clitl-yu (Peking Kuang-mtng Jth.pao, September 12, 1974). Leadership of the Party The cadres of the CCP committee, revolutionary· committee and militia department of Jenhua hsien, Kwangtung Province, through carrying forward the glorious traditions of our Party and army and consciously strengthenl.ng and upholding the centralized leadership of the Party, have further cemented the ties 124
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