alternate Mao Zedong

this is just an idea and i would like your input. but here it goes.

Mao Zedong, inspired by american republicanism, Sun Yat-sen father of the Republic of China, Peter Kropotkin's anarchism and the communist revolutions, he a became strict Social-Democrat, advocating reform before violence, but would be greatly influence by the New Culture Movement, which blamed China’s diplomatic defeats, in the aftermath of WW1, on social and cultural backwardness. He began organizing protests against the Governor of Hunan Province, Zhang Jingyao, popularly known as "Zhang the Venomous" due to his corrupt and violent rule.

Using vernacular language that would be understandable to the majority of China's populace, he advocated the need for a "Great Union of the Popular Masses", strengthened trade unions able to wage non-violent revolution.

He wrote extensivly for the popular local newspaper Justice (Ta Kung Po). Several of these articles advocated feminist views, calling for the liberation of women in Chinese society; Mao was influenced by his forced arranged-marriage.

Coming across newly translated Marxist literature by Thomas Kirkup, Karl Kautsky, and Marx and Engels—notably The Communist Manifesto, he was influenced, but was still highly eclectic in his views and would later adopt several principles of Marxism, Chen Duxiu, who recognized the value of Mao's interpretation of Marxism in inciting the Chinese peasants and labourers to revolution, Chen and Mao's acceptance of the strong role of the bourgeoisie, was an important step, which would help them organize the revolting workers and peasents. Chen would later privatly denounced Joseph Stalin's dictatorship. Mao would adopt Chens beliefs in democratic institutions, including independent judiciaries, opposition parties, a free press, and free elections, were important and valuable, though violent revolt was accepted when neccesary.

Chen Duxiu, Deng Yanda, Huang Qixiang and Mao Zedong formed The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Socialist-Democratic Party, promoting radical socialist-democratic centralism, they entered into a united front with the communist party on Lenin's advice to accept a temporary alliance between the Communists, the Socialist-Democratic Party and the "bourgeois democrats" who also advocated national revolution.

When party leader Sun Yat-sen died in May 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek, who initiated moves to marginalise the position of the Communists and Socialist-Democrats, Mao and his Socialist-Democrats would nevertheless supporte Chiang's decision to overthrow the Beiyang government and their foreign imperialist allies using the National Revolutionary Army, who embarked on the Northern Expedition in 1926. In the wake of this expedition, peasants rose up, appropriating the land of the wealthy landowners, whom were in many cases killed. Such uprisings angered senior KMT figures, who were themselves landowners, emphasizing the growing class and ideological divide within the revolutionary movement.

The radical socialist-democratic centralists, accepted that there was great variation in revolutionary enthusiasm across the country, and that a flexible policy of land redistribution was necessary, when some of the landed gentry was cooperating with the revolutionary movement. Though all the Revolutionary parties implemented life imprisonment and hard labour for anyone found guilty of counter-revolutionary activity, arguing that in a revolutionary situation, "peaceful methods cannot suffice alone"
 
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