Mao's Anarchist Years (The Young Mao Zedong Part Two)
02/20/20 • 25 min
In this episode we continue our examination of Mao Zedong’s ideological development by discussing his anarchist period.
Further reading:
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 1: The Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-1920 is the indispensable source here.
Some names from this episode:
Li Dazhao, leading proponent of learning from the Russian Revolution
Hu Shi, student of John Dewey and advocate for pragmatism
Chen Duxiu, editor of New Youth and leading New Culture intellectual
In this episode we continue our examination of Mao Zedong’s ideological development by discussing his anarchist period.
Further reading:
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 1: The Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-1920 is the indispensable source here.
Some names from this episode:
Li Dazhao, leading proponent of learning from the Russian Revolution
Hu Shi, student of John Dewey and advocate for pragmatism
Chen Duxiu, editor of New Youth and leading New Culture intellectual
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Further reading:
Maurice Meisner, Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism
Arif Dirlik, The Origins of Chinese Communism
Some names from this episode:
Yuan Shikai, leader of the Beiyang Army and dictator after the fall of the Qing
Sun Yat-sen/Sun Zhongshan, leader of the Guomindang
Chen Duxiu, editor of New Youth and leading New Culture intellectual
Lu Xun, progressive writer who wrote “A Madman’s Diary” for New Youth
Li Dazhao, collaborator with Chen Duxiu and leading proponent of learning from the Russian Revolution
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People's History of Ideas Podcast - Mao's Anarchist Years (The Young Mao Zedong Part Two)
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Welcome to Episode 14 of the People’s History of Ideas Podcast.
This episode, we will be picking up the story of Mao Zedong during his pre-Marxist years.
We last left off with Mao in episode 12 by looking at the first of his written works which has survived down to today, a school essay that he wrote in 1912, when he was 18 years old. He was just out of his short and uneventful time in the revolutionary army of 1911, and he was going to school and intended to use his education to
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