Vagrants, Mercenaries, and Rich Peasants (November 1928)

11/27/22 • 41 min

A close reading of a couple portions of Mao’s November 25, 1928 report to the Central Committee.
Further reading:
Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Highlands: China’s Jinggangshan Base AreaStuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 2: National Revolution and Social Revolution, December 1920-June 1927Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949Mao Zedong, “The Struggle in the Chingkang Mountains”
Names listed as having attended Nov. 6 meeting mentioned near the beginning of the episode:
Zhu De, Chen Yi, He Tingying, He Changgong, Yuan Wencai, Wang Zuo, Tan Zhenlin, Deng Ganyuan, Li Quefei, Chen Zhengren, Wang Zuonong, Xiao Wanxia, Liu Huixiao, Xie Chunbiao, Liu Di, Xiong Shouqi, Yang Kaiming, Cao Shuo, Deng Jiuting, Mao Zedong, Song Qiaosheng, Peng Gu, and Yuan Desheng.

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11/27/22 • 41 min

People's History of Ideas Podcast - Vagrants, Mercenaries, and Rich Peasants (November 1928)

Transcript

Welcome to episode 98 of the People’s History of Ideas podcast.

We have spent the last three episodes talking about how Mao articulated what he had learned about conducting a revolution in rural China in the wake of the August Defeat of 1928. In the document that we looked at in those episodes, it was my aim that we would get a concrete idea about Mao’s learning process during the period from the Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927 through the reconquest of the Jinggangshan by his forces

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