Chronicles of a revolution
Arguments for the study of the Chinese revolution
Paul Vermeer on facebook: "For several reasons I think that for the anti-imperialist nationalist resistance in a given region lying under colonial production-relations it is very important to study at least (and I mean in the first place but NOT exclusively of course, see above) the experiences, the history of the CHINESE revolution and with it the works of Mao Zedong (studying them in the context OF that revolution)"
Documents about a revolution
Remembering Socialist China 1949-1976 from rupe-india.org
Learning from a successful revolution: The Chinese revolution. (part 1) :"The origin of the development of revolutionary consciousness ... by the young Mao Zedong"Read further hereLearning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 2):"Chronicles of a succesful revolution (2): Young Mao (16) shaped by the actuality, study and identification with the exploited."
Learning from a succesful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 3):
"Chronicles of a revolution (3):Essential for revolutionary: changing own bourgeois feelings, a change of one class to another.
Still in search for a theory (...)
Use of all kinds of information- and communication canals: today it would be websites, weblogs and the use of netwerks like facebook....(...)
The practice of the actuality (here the 1911 revolution[7]), being a part of it (...)
Change of feelings, change of one class to another (...)"
[7] See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution
Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 4):
"Personally bound with the exploited, practice of revolt “by all means”, study to know the world in order to chang him.
Learning of socialism, need of further study and facing the limits of a nationalist democratic revolution (Here the revolution of 1911[1]) (...)
To make revolution has to be learned: by historical study and by practice (...)
To increase consciousness of the masses which will once consciously fight for revolution, you have to become a teacher (...)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution
Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 5):
The ripening of the conceptions “What is to be done?” and “How to organise for which objective?”
An organisation “in which people would debate new ideas and create for themselves a new 'personality' by discussion, debate, self-analysis and action.” (...)
So studying, analysing, searching, discussion, organising, to have influence on “the uprising” which you cannot “predict”…. but will once be a fact (...)
….learning the achievements of an already reasonable successful revolution that has taken place (...)
A conscious choice of being or becoming a part of the exploited is essential for your later revolutionary ideology (...)
Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 6):
4th May movement in China 1919 and the actual uprisings in the Arab world.(becoming part 6 of my study)
Was the 4 May-movement (1919, China)[1] ON ITSELF “revolution” or could it play A PART in the revolution when certain conditions were fullfilled? A consideration that to my opinion can also been made in the analyses of the actual protest-movements and uprisings in the Arab world.
The 4th of may movement was not a sudden spontaneous protest movement, it was prepared and organised (...)
The following could just be a report of an “uprising noticed in China”. (....to compare with just actualised reporting of uprisings today in the Arab world) (...)
But the evaluation of the revolutionary character is done by history itself (...)
And how could then the aims of the 4 May movement finally be achieved?
Mao Zedong in 1939 about the 4 May movement of 1919: (...)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement
Learning from a successfull revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 7)
The 4 May movement(China, 1919), the actual uprisings in the Arab world, when are they a step towards revolution?
The 4 May movement in China of 1919 has some similarities with the actual uprisings in the Arab world which go about democracy (a chosen government not bound to external imperialist forces), against dictatorship and corruption (which means the interests of the -“dictatorial” or “corrupt”- rulers are not those of their citizens but those of the imperialist forces with which they are 'allied'), against planned measures deteriorating social security, for jobs and a for a a decent income.
The 4 May movement was against the warlord-government and their favouring of the imperialist powers, and their “easines” in which that “warlord-government” signed all kind of treaties which strengthened colonialist power over China.
How can such uprisings be a step in the direction of revolution, even when those uprising don't have direct material results and are quiet down after some time? And what means “revolution”? What has to be the tasks of those INVOLVED in those uprisings in order to increase the consciousness and the will to ACT of as much of people as possible? Read further here.
Learning from a successfull revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 8)
To be involved in “an uprising”, trying to develop it to its highest possible level, and making out of it the best possible step towards future revolution, fighting against recuperation. The concrete example of the October-revolution, promoted the attraction by the van-guard (of which Mao was one of them) of the 4 May movement for Marxism....It weaponed them against reformism and dogmatism. An uprising has its limits, has its results and its defeats....but grasping its lessons, achievements and its moments of “practice of open struggle” to use them for the preparation for the final revolution – Mao: 'Once I had accepted Marxism as the correct interpretation of history, I did not afterwards waver.' (Read further here)
Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 9)
Uprisings can develop into a contribution of a final revolution or can be just an uprising passing by, depending of the forces working IN those uprisings. (…)
The label ”Communist Party” means NOT automatically a party along Bolshevik principles and a organisation of the real vanguard of the working class, united around a revolutionary strategy.(…)
Although in minority on the Congress, Mao followed the Party guidelines decided majority against minority. (Read further here)
Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 10)To stay revolutionary, a Communist Party has to fight ideologically and politically against opportunism IN her own ranks continuously.
Mao Tsetung disagreed with the two opportunist lines occurring IN (the leadership of) the Chinese Communist Party:
1. The working class was not ready for revolution. The actual revolution is a nationalist bourgeois one, so the communists have to wait until the nationalist bourgeois (together with the peasants) had done their revolution.
2. The peasants are not in favour of the revolution, the working class is the only force for the revolution. The communists as vanguard of the working class have to lead the working class to the revolution against the bourgeois (and the peasants)
....and was opposed by the leadership of his own Communist Party.
In the meantime was Mao Tsetung, in fact, just putting in practice the guidelines of the Third International (the Comintern), of which the Chinese Communist Party was member.(Read further here)
Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 11)Opportunist (dogmatic, eclectic, sectarian, reformist, pseudo-”Marxist” ...) analyse which is not been FOUGHT INSIDE the Communist Party (by “the struggle between two lines”) is serving the same BOURGEOIS and imperialist class-interests as the misleading “anti-imperialist” “internationalist” “revolutionary” rhetoric CONSCIOUSLY developed out of a BOURRGEOIS class-position in order to PREVENT the workers from overthrowing capitalism and the imperialist colonialist production-relations. (…)OBJECTIVELY serving SAME class-interests: Reformists and Bourgeoisie(…)The First United Front was no mistake! It was the opportunist BETRAYAL which was wrong(…) (Read further here)Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 12)How the revolutionary strength and energy of the people can be unleashed by revolutionary leadership which has to be an integrated part OF those masses? .... And how those can be bound and chained by a 'false' leadership having another agenda than that of the revolution?A “self-declared” leadership, but who is just “following” events and the tide, is objectively compliant to that conscious-working-for-another-agenda leadership.(Read CONCRETELY here)Learning from a successful revolution: the Chinese revolution. (part 13)Mao in 1927:'"Every revolutionary comrade and every revolutionary party will put to the test, to be accepted or rejected as they decide. There are three alternatives. To march at their [the peasants'] head and lead them? To trail behind them, gesticulating and criticising? Or to stand in their way and oppose them? Every Chinese is free to choose, but events will force you to make the choice quickly."' Mao thus challenged 'every comrade' to measure up to revolution. (Read here)
Chronicles 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3
Learning from a successful revolution (part 9.1)
The way certain members and cadres of the Chinese Communist Party developed their practice, their engagement in the class struggle and in the measure that they made – or did NOT made - a real ideological choice for the OBJECTIVE interests of the working class (which are the interests of ALL the people suffering from exploitation of imperialism), FROM THE BEGINNING (of the existence of the CCP) are an explanation of their later ideological development…. and their final revolutionary or counterrevolutionary choice. (Read further here)
Learning from a successful revolution (part 9.2)
Although there was not a concrete guideline of the CCP (but in agreement with the advices of Lenin and of the COMINTERN), Mao was working IN PRACTICE on a revolutionary alliance between peasants and workers under leadership of the working class….. The First United Front…. But each organisation representing other interests of other classes and each individual having an ideological CLASS-position of a certain class and so defending those respective CLASS-interests (formulated in whatever “revolutionary” phraseology), had another idea of this “First United Front”) (Read it all here)
Learning from a successful revolution (part 9.3)
Although principally working following the agreed guidelines, Mao was marginalised IN the CCP by a part of the leadership which had, as was proved later, another ideological agenda......
The bourgeois part of the KMT was AGAINST the revolutionary alliance of peasants and workers; the “right” AND “left” opportunists in the CCP ALSO...The intrigues of the bourgeois part of the KMT and the “left” AND “right” opportunism in the CCP lead to an OBJECTIVELY identical counterrevolutionary practice....(Read it all here)