Communist revolution and peasant mobilisation in the hinterland of North China: The early years

'If they [the peasants] become class conscious and arise in class struggle, our social revolution, Communism, will be assured. Therefore since they have this tendency, waiting for their natural, slow progress is not as good as using some man-made methods to accelerate them, thereby enabling them to become class-conscious a day earlier and avoid a day of suffering' - Anon. in Gongchangdang (7 April 1921).(1)