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ID173439
Title ProperChinese Revolution and the Communist International
LanguageENG
AuthorYang, Jun ;  Cheng, Enfu
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article is an intervention in some controversies concerning the role of the Communist International in and outside China. It seeks to tackle the inappropriate denial of its guidance and aid to the Chinese Revolution. In doing so, this paper makes several arguments. First, it argues that the Communist International provided the Chinese Revolution with valuable guidance, support and assistance. These contributed tremendously to the Communist Party of China’s birth, development, consolidation and maturation and advanced its theoretical self-consciousness. Second, while the Communist International gave its guidance in the sincere hope that the Chinese Revolution would benefit from correct theories and advanced experiences, it absolutised the theoretical conceptions of the classical Marxists and the Russian experience. This led to mistakes or misjudgments that deserve an accurate evaluation. Third, the Communist International was itself conducting theoretical exploration, and was generally able to adjust its own theories and change its strategies. Fourth, for all the Communist International’s guidance, the universal tenets of Marxism had to be integrated with the concrete practice of the Chinese Revolution, and it was the ability of Chinese communists to Sinicise Marxism–Leninism in what amounted to a theoretical revolution under Mao Zedong’s leadership that accounts for the revolution’s ultimate victory.
`In' analytical NoteThird World Quarterly Vol. 41, No.8; 2020: p.1338-1352
Journal SourceThird World Quarterly Vol: 41 No 8
Key WordsThe Chinese Revolution ;  The Communist International ;  The Russian Revolution ;  Marxism–Leninism ;  Mao Zedong Thought


 
 
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