"I didn't expect a Chinese Revolution!"

"Nobody expects the Chinese Revolution!"

#ChineseRevolution #MontyPython

Nohara Shiro, until his death in 1981, was a #Marxist #historian specializing in Chinese history and #ChinesePolitics who had also become strongly involved in the movement to eradicate pre-war feudal and fascist influences from #Japanese education and learning. The essay translated here originally appeared in his 1960 collection, History and Ideology in #Asia (Ajia no rekishi to shisb). Despite his personal preference for #Marxism over anarchism, Nohara’s approach to the subject is quite open-minded. The strengths of his essay are its focus upon practical organizing attempts rather than intellectual activities, and its revelation of the considerable #anarchist influence upon Li Dazhao, whom the #Communist Party has long claimed as its own. Whilst most of the early intellectual exponents of the anarchist idea either drifted away into obscurity, were converted to Marxism, or joined the bandwagon of the nationalist movement (some even becoming outright fascists), the organizing activities described here often became the building blocks for the subsequent communist movement. Nohara’s work is thus invaluable not only for shedding light on the role of anarchism as an intellectual stimulus for the Chinese #revolutionary movement as a whole, but also for making clear the political debt owed the anarchists in terms of practical activities.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nohara-shiro-anarchists-and-the-may-4-movement-in-china

#AsianMastodon #ChineseHistory #ChineseAnarchists #ChineseRevolution #AnarchistLibrary #AsianAnarchism #essay #RecommendedReading #educational #AntiFascist #AsianAnarchyHistory

Recommended #FreeEBook 👇

Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution - Arif Dirlik

Arif Dirlik’s offering is a #revisionist perspective on #Chinese #radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of #anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the #SocialistMovement in #China.

Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the #anarchist contribution to #revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the #ChineseRevolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide.

Arif Dirlik is #Professor of #History at #DukeUniversity. He is the author of Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–1937 (California, 1978) and The Origins of Chinese Communism (1989).

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/arif-dirlik-anarchism-in-the-chinese-revolution

#AsianMastodon #AnarchistLibrary

I'm excited for this event tomorrow at 5pm. @pmpress is putting it together.
If you can make it please check it out. Ellen David Friedman is an inspiring speaker and figure. I'm extremely interested to see what she'll say about this topic (or any topic honestly).
I'm not even going to nitpick about the revisionism implicit in describing anything as socialist ☺️

#ChineseRevolution #China #Ithaca #IthacaNY #labor #Communism #LaborNotes #socialism

I've started listening to THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION PODCAST and it's fascinating; so much to learn and unlearn.

Blurb: "A podcast for building a new history of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976."

#China #Chinese #ChineseHistory #ChineseRevolution #Mao #CulturalRevolution #Communism #history #politics #revolution #socialism

A link to the show on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0xclEn43mgxPAdHxYeL84s?si=93bc6d5f97f84eea

Video | Valt de Chinese bevolking te redden nu er een halvering dreigt?

#Chinademo #Chinaprotest #Chineserevolution
https://www.nu.nl/-/6254477/

I've been interested in knowing more about the #TwentiethCentury #history of #China. I find the #ChineseRevolution fascinating, including #MaoTseTung and the so-called #GreatLeapForward or #CulturalRevolution and all it did. So far everything I've learned is how awful the Cultural Revolution was, and it seems a true and a fair assessment. But, everything I've found are Western accounts (see the video below) and not Chinese. I'm curious how the Chinese understand it.

https://youtu.be/AXmcDyvVKMg