On Contradiction was written within the context of the Warlord Era when China was de facto ruled by various military cliques. With China being ruled by various military cliques, these questions had to be answered:
Which warlord can you win to your side?
Which warlord can you threaten into joining your side?
Which warlord will toady up to you once you’re strong enough?
Which warlord do you have to ruthlessly crush and make an example out of?
It does not follow that the communists had to declare war against every single warlord. By far the biggest example against this was Zhu De, who was a warlord until he was persuaded by Zhou Enlai to become a communist instead. And when Zhu De became a communist, his troops under his command as a warlord joined the communists as well. By the end of the Century of Humiliation, Zhu De was the first of the Ten Marshals and first commander-in-chief of the PLA.
I suspect this “pre-party formation” will meet the same fate as all the other “pre-party formations.”
On Contradiction was written within the context of the Warlord Era when China was de facto ruled by various military cliques. With China being ruled by various military cliques, these questions had to be answered:
Which warlord can you win to your side?
Which warlord can you threaten into joining your side?
Which warlord will toady up to you once you’re strong enough?
Which warlord do you have to ruthlessly crush and make an example out of?
It does not follow that the communists had to declare war against every single warlord. By far the biggest example against this was Zhu De, who was a warlord until he was persuaded by Zhou Enlai to become a communist instead. And when Zhu De became a communist, his troops under his command as a warlord joined the communists as well. By the end of the Century of Humiliation, Zhu De was the first of the Ten Marshals and first commander-in-chief of the PLA.
I suspect this “pre-party formation” will meet the same fate as all the other “pre-party formations.”