Revolutionary Unity Quotes



Rival to Mao. This quotation is historically important because it shows how intensively the Chinese Communists concentrated on organizing the fringe and unpopular groups of society to the point where the struggle was between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and everybody else. The Chinese Communist coalition included many who had not idea of what communism was but knew that Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists were not very good for them or the people they knew.


Durruti’s and other Republican columns were advancing on Saragossa on the Aragon front to free it from the Fascists. Durruti’s army was made up of idealist libertarians and anarchists who also didn’t much like straight communists because they would restrict individual freedom. The regular communist army was more conservative and wanted to coordinate and attack and wait for planning and more coordination between the columns. The libertarians pushed ahead with the others following and they took Saragossa


This has been the case ever since WWII. In the Great March where the Communists avoided capture by the Nationalists, the army, the party, and many of the people were in a single amalgam living on the move. The positive and fair behavior of the Communist army during the Great March did a great deal to convince the Chinese peasants that the Communists were not corrupt and greedy as were most of the Nationalist officials they ran into. From a strict military point of view, there was little for the Army to do for defense and national security since the overthrow of the Nationalists. So they have been great supporters of development of the nation after the revolution, but by the 21st century had developed some of their own corruption and built companies to produce funds for the army (and some of its leaders personally.