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The Proletarian Nation vs. The Theory of the Productive Forces
Season 1 Episode 23
The thinking of Chinese Communism’s two founders, Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, diverges as revolutionary experience is gained.
Further Reading:
Maurice Me…
5 years, 9 months ago
Friends Close, Enemies Closer: The United Front in Action
Season 1 Episode 22
As both the Guomindang and the Communist Party benefit from their collaboration, tensions build.
Further reading:
Tony Saich, The Origins of the First …
5 years, 9 months ago
The Road Is Tortuous: The Chinese Revolution and the End of the Global Sixties
Season 1 Episode 21
A podcast version of a recently published article which argues that the rightward turn of Chinese politics in the 1970s was a key contributing factor…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Loneliest United Front: The Chinese Communist Party in 1923
Season 1 Episode 20
The Communist Party of China tries to find a way to implement the united front with the Guomindang in 1923, but ultimately has to wait for the Soviet…
5 years, 9 months ago
Communist Unionizing and the Genesis of the United Front with the Guomindang
Season 1 Episode 19
The Communist Party begins its labor organizing drive, and the Comintern pushes for a united front with the Guomindang.
Further reading:
Elizabeth Perr…
5 years, 9 months ago
Workers' Revolution or Nationalist United Front? Early Strategic Decisions of the Chinese Communist Party
Season 1 Episode 18
The early divergence in strategic thinking and revolutionary priorities between the CCP and the Comintern.
Further reading:
Tony Saich, The Origins of…
5 years, 10 months ago
Demarcation and Organization: The Chinese Communist Party is Founded
Season 1 Episode 17
Polemics with non-revolutionary Marxists and anarchists, and then the party congress in July 1921.
Further reading:
Arif Dirlik, The Origins of Chinese…
5 years, 10 months ago
From Russia with Organizational Expertise: The Comintern Comes to China
Season 1 Episode 16
Gregory Voitinsky comes to China and helps get the ball rolling to found the Communist Party. Also, a few words on commodity fetishism as the keyston…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Communist International
Season 1 Episode 15
Explaining how the strategic thinking of the Communist International developed, as background to the key role the ComIntern played in facilitating th…
5 years, 11 months ago
Mao's Anarchist Years (The Young Mao Zedong Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 14
In this episode we continue our examination of Mao Zedong’s ideological development by discussing his anarchist period.
Further reading:
Stuart Schram…
6 years ago