Leadership of the New-Democratic Revolution

Which class should lead the New-Democratic Revolution? The proletariat or the bourgeoisie? This was the main difference between the old type and the new type of democratic revolution. Mao Zedong proposed that the leadership of the New-Democratic Revolution belonged to the proletariat and its political party. "The leadership of the proletariat has fundamentally changed the face of the revolution, led to the new configuration in the class relations within China, it led to the great launch of the peasant revolution, the thoroughness of the revolution against imperialism and feudalism, the possibility of transforming from a democratic revolution to a socialist revolution, and so on. All these would be impossible to imagine during the period of bourgeois led revolution."

In April 1945, Mao Zedong pointed out in “On Coalition Government” that: “China has no political party exclusively representing the peasants and the political parties of the national bourgeoisie have no thoroughgoing land programme, the Communist Party of China has become the leader of the peasants and all the other revolutionary democrats, being the only party that has formulated and carried out a thoroughgoing land programme, fought earnestly for the peasants' interests and therefore won the overwhelming majority of the peasants as its great ally.”