POL215Y1 Lecture 4: POL215 4th week reading notes
12 Oct 2017
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Founding of ccp was the result of the convergence of: the victory of the bolsheviks in russia in 1917, the rising wave of nationalism in china in the wake of the versailles settlement in 1919. Marxism is not applicable to china because the country"s proletarian class was so small. Chinese term for proletarian borrowed from the japanese translates as (cid:862)propertyless class(cid:863), a convenient ambiguity that could be stretched to apply to many peasants as well. Communism"s appeal to chinese intellectuals was that it provided an immediate solution to china. Mao"s aim was to take advantage of the peasants" rising discontent with their landlords and officials rather than, as envisioned by marx, working with the urban proletariat. *kmt under estimated ccp, kmt was riven by factionalism and its co-opted warlords did not always obey chiang"s orders. Ccp leaders had been trying to convince local warlords that it would be best to reconcile their differences in order to fight the.
