listening to Spence on the chinese revolutionary wars now i can't keep track of what's going on. it is a complete clusterfuck. chiang is flitting between leftists, the KMT has its own factions, lenin and trotsky are trying to control everything and fighting one another
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this seems risible in retrospect like, do any communists today actually believe that there's some kind of mass proletariat that (i) likes them and (ii) is going to rise up and seize the american government? but apparently early 20C communists were high on their own supply wild
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They had never read any Marx, only Soviet chapbooks, the only Chinese who had even vaguely on their side was Zhang Chaolin. All the actual Marxists were with the KMT (who Spence weirdly calls the GMD)
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I would argue that Chiang's opportunism contrasted with Mao's principled stance contributed to the eventual communist victory.
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