Kuomintang
Kuomintang 中國國民黨 | |
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| Abbreviation | KMT |
| Chairperson | Eric Chu |
| Secretary-General | Justin Huang |
| Founded | 10 October 1919 |
| Political orientation |
Chinese nationalism Before 1925: Republicanism Liberal radicalism Socialism (factions) After 1925: Conservatism Anti-communism Fascism (factions) After 1975: Neoliberalism Anti-communism |
The Kuomintang[a] (KMT) are one of the three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and formerly mainland China's ruling party from 1928 to 1949. Although they maintained a few short-term alliances with the Communist Party of China for opportunistic reasons, the Kuomintang have always constituted the largest anti-communist force endemic to China. The party is associated with notorious reactionary Chiang Kai-shek.
The Kuomintang, unlike its later reactionary stance, was initially a relatively progressive, bourgeois revolutionary party which stood against the feudal Manchu-dominated Qing dynasty. While never a Marxist himself, Sun Yat-sen was to some extent influenced by Leninist organizational structure and additionally had correspondence with the Communist International. However, Sun Yat-sen ultimately rejected Marxism and believed that a model similar to that the Soviet model would be impossible to apply to China. Thus, the path taken by the Kuomintang under Sun Yat-sen would still inevitably be one of bourgeois democracy.[1][2]
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References
- ↑ Dirlik, Arif "I. The Origins", Marxism and the Chinese Revolution
- ↑ Hoxha, Enver Can the Chinese Revolution be called a Proletarian Revolution? (1979) November 8th Publishing House. pp. 1-9
Notes
- ↑ (Chinese: 国民党 "Nationalist Party"; also romanized Komintang or Guomindang