Most curious of all, of course, irrespective of whatever "class analysis" informed Marxist-Leninist policies, there was Stalin's judgment that in China a preoccupation with class interests was really of little practical importance. As late as April 1927, when the Comintern's united front policy was disintegrating into tragedy, Stalin could still insist that the respective interests of classes involved in the Chinese revolution were of relatively minor consequence because "a powerful national factor" had drawn all "revolutionary forces of the country together into one camp." In his judgment, it was the nationalist "struggle against imperialism" that was the "'predominating factor ... determining the character of the re
Most curious of all, of course, irrespective of whatever "class analysis" informed Marxist-Leninist policies, there was Stalin's judgment that in China a preoccupation with class interests was really of little practical importance. As late as April 1927, when the Comintern's united front policy was disintegrating into tragedy, Stalin could still insist that the respective interests of classes involved in the Chinese revolution were of relatively minor consequence because "a powerful national factor" had drawn all "revolutionary forces of the country together into one camp." In his judgment, it was the nationalist "struggle against imperialism" that was the "'predominating factor ... determining the character of the re
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