Communist Unionizing and the Genesis of the United Front with the Guomindang
People's History of Ideas Podcast05/14/20 • 25 min
The Communist Party begins its labor organizing drive, and the Comintern pushes for a united front with the Guomindang.
Further reading:
Elizabeth Perry, Shanghai on StrikeTony Saich, The Origins of the First United Front in China
Steve Smith, A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai 1920-1927
Some names from this episode:
Henk Sneevliet, alias Maring, Dutch Communist and Comintern leader in China beginning in 1921
Zhang Guotao, emerged from founding congress as an important Communist leader
Sun Zhongshan/Sun Yatsen, leader of the Guomindang
Li Qihan, communist teacher and labor organizer who pioneered utilization of secret society contacts in labor organizing
Huang Ai, anarchist labor organizer executed in 1922
Pang Renquan, anarchist labor organizer executed in 1922
Chen Duxiu, first general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Gregory Voitinsky, leader of Comintern delegation to China in 1920
Chen Jiongming, progressive southern warlord, sometime opponent of Sun Yatsen
V. Lidin, Comintern agent in China, subordinate to Maring
Li Dazhao, leading Communist
Adolph Joffe, Soviet ambassador to China
Georgy Safarov, head of eastern section of the Comintern
Wu Peifu, northern warlord who crushed railroad workers’ strike in 1923
05/14/20 • 25 min
People's History of Ideas Podcast - Communist Unionizing and the Genesis of the United Front with the Guomindang
Transcript
Welcome to episode 19 of the People’s History of Ideas Podcast.
We left off our last episode with a major strategic divergence between the Chinese Communist Party and the Comintern representative, Maring, who had been sent to China to guide the Chinese Revolution. The Communists overwhelmingly decided to focus their efforts on labor organizing after the first party congress in July 1921, while Maring had hoped to guide the Communist Party into an alliance with the Guomindang, or Nation
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