Military

It all comes down to what you view as being the primary contradiction that you are facing. To fight the Japanese imperialists, the Chinese communists allied with the Nationalists who had just massacred communists en masse all across China and forced the remnants to embark on the Long March. After the war against the Japanese occupation was over, the struggle against the Nationalists resumed.

Ideally we would like the struggle against the reactionary elements in our own anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements to not have to end up in an actual war, but be resolved through an internal political and ideological struggle after the revolution.