Opportunism and Self-Criticism: The Jinggangshan Party Congress Resolution of October 1928
People's History of Ideas Podcast
English - October 20, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Philosophy revolution late capitalism maoism china history communism socialism progressive social change crisis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A discussion of the concept of opportunism as it developed in the international communist movement, and a close reading of the self-critical portion of the resolution of the Border Area Party Congress of October 4 to 6, 1928.
Further reading:
Lenin, “Opportunism, and the Collapse of the Second International”
Cheng Yen-shih, ed., Lenin’s Fight Against Revisionism and Opportunism
Mao Zedong, “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People”
Lynn White, Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution
Some names from this episode:
Du Xiujing, Inspector sent to the Jinggangshan by the Hunan Provincial Committee in May 1928 and who returned in June
Liu Zhen, Secretary of the Yongxin County Party Committee