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...underdeveloped countries without much industry, Communism cannot work through the industrial proletariat as it did in Russia and the West, but must win power through arming and organizing the peasants. From 1927-30, Mao fought for this concept against the orthodox type of Marxism represented by his rival Li Lisan. With specific approval of Stalin, Mao won the fight...
Chou quickly warmed to Communism's climate. After a year in Moscow, he returned in 1929 to join forces with China's new Red boss, Li Lisan, an old friend of his Paris days. Chou strung along with his strategy of armed revolt by city workers, but when Moscow switched to Mao's strategy of organizing a peasant army, Chou managed to switch, too. Chou went to work teaching the new army the political tricks he had long ago taught the Nationalists in Whampoa...
...Chiang was one of the first to realize that cooperation with the Communists is possible only by surrendering to them. Chiang preferred not to surrender. By 1927, the Chinese Communists were once more on their own. In his native Hunan, Mao tirelessly tried to organize the peasants. But Li Lisan, Mao's noncommittal correspondent, was chosen by Moscow to head the Chinese party. In orthodox Marxist fashion, Li Lisan based his hopes on the urban proletariat; he considered China's peasant millions too backward to grasp the new revolutionary science...
...same time, the Russians marched into Manchuria in their one-week war against Japan and for months prevented the Nationalist troops from entering the northern provinces. Li Lisan returned with the Red army from his Moscow exile and was established in Manchuria. He had successfully purged himself of Trotskyism, had married a Russian girl, and was said to be in high favor with Stalin...
Last summer, in Harbin, Asian Communist delegates met to receive certain instructions from Moscow. One of the speakers was Li Lisan, Mao's old rival, and now presumed to be Red boss of Manchuria. Said Li ominously: "Some of our comrades in Asia have been in error . . . We must avoid at all costs the spread of nationalistic Communism in Asia. We cannot tolerate a Tito in Asia...