Abstract

Focusing on the Chinese Communists' mobilizational efforts at the coal mine in the early 1920s, the author argues for reconsidering a sometimes forgot ten part of Chinese revolutionary history. At Anyuan, idealistic young Commu nist cadres led a highly successful nonviolent strike and launched a major educational program for workers, peasants, and their families. The result was a remarkable outpouring of popular support for the Communist revolutionary effort. Although the meaning of the Anyuan revolutionary tradition' has been obscured and distorted over the years to serve a variety of personal, politi cal, and pecuniary agendas, the author seeks to recover from its early history the possibility of alternative revolutionary paths, driven less by class struggle and cults of personality than by the quest for human dignity through grassroots organization.

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  • Focusing on the Chinese Communists’ mobilizational efforts at the Anyuan coal mine in the early 1920s, the author argues for reconsidering a sometimes forgotten part of Chinese revolutionary history

  • We put our faith in liberal institutions such as markets and courts of law, looking to “democratic transitions” rather than to social revolutions as the path toward political progress

  • The view of revolution as a nasty and needless mistake was evident twenty years ago when celebrations surrounding the bicentennial of the French Revolution evoked debate and discomfort both inside and outside of France

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Focusing on the Chinese Communists’ mobilizational efforts at the Anyuan coal mine in the early 1920s, the author argues for reconsidering a sometimes forgotten part of Chinese revolutionary history. Mark Selden who in his 1971 book, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China, had written that “The Chinese revolution ...

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