General Line of the New-Democratic Revolution

In 1939, Mao Zedong put forward the scientific concept of "New-Democratic Revolution" for the first time in his article "The Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party of China”, by making a comprehensive exposition of the object, task, nature, motive force and future of the New-Democratic Revolution from the combination of theory and practice, and summed up the new democratic revolution as "an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolution of the broad masses of the people under the leadership of the proletariat.”

In April 1948, Mao Zedong put forward the general line and policy of the new democratic revolution comprehensively and systematically for the first time in his “Speech at a Conference of Cadres in the Shansi-Suiyuan Liberated Area”: "The revolution against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism waged by the broad masses of the people under the leadership of the proletariat.” This is a complete scientific expression of the general line of the New-Democratic Revolution. This general line contains three basic points: Firstly, leadership in this revolution could and must have been assumed by no class and party other than the proletariat and the Communist Party of China; secondly, the united front of those joining this revolution would be very broad, embracing the workers, peasants, independent craftsmen, professionals, intellectuals, the national bourgeoisie and the section of the enlightened gentry; thirdly, the enemies to be overthrown in this revolution should only be imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism, but should not include all forms of capitalism and bourgeoisie in general.