Mao Nationalist and Chiang Communist

just had a crazy....or not so crazy.....idea. is there a POD or PODs where Mao is Nationalist and Chiang Communist?

OTL Chiang had soviet assistance until he kicked them out......
 
Chiang played ball with the communists as long as he had to and not a moment longer after that. You're talking about a man who by every possible logic should have been a Marx-reading, Stalin-worshipping communist. Chiang threw all of it away when he massacred the Communists in 1937, there's a rhyme and reason for it.

But assuming people who work the same way that Mao and Chiang do get in swapped positions... I can see the Nationalists being a much tougher lot than OTL. I don't think it was Mao's way to tolerate the kinds of people that flourished under Chiang's rule, the KMT would have been a cleaner operation.

If he tries some sort of totalitarian thing like the Cultural Revolution things will be pretty ugly though. It will bear distinct similarities if he does it... after all, the Cultural Revolution involved a purge of modern and "decadent" values, a right-wing, KMT Mao would probably be about bringing back the good old Confucian ways by force.
 
I'm currently in Taiwan, and a few days ago, walked past a large statue of Chiang Kai Shek.......

and thought about replacing it with Mao instead:p
 
If he tries some sort of totalitarian thing like the Cultural Revolution things will be pretty ugly though. It will bear distinct similarities if he does it... after all, the Cultural Revolution involved a purge of modern and "decadent" values, a right-wing, KMT Mao would probably be about bringing back the good old Confucian ways by force.

Hmmm, swap the Red Guards for the Blue Shirts... that could be interesting!

I'm currently in Taiwan, and a few days ago, walked past a large statue of Chiang Kai Shek.......

and thought about replacing it with Mao instead:p

:D
 
Hmmm, swap the Red Guards for the Blue Shirts... that could be interesting!



:D

I was thinking that. Mao as a nationalist would be as close to a Chinese Hitler as you could get. I wouldn't want to see what he would do to non-Han Chinese....
 
Well, remember the KMT was quite left-wing officially; their platform called for socialism, they had sorts of left-leaning laws, like land reform, anti-corruption measures, etc. on the books. If Mao or someone more dedicated to those left-leaning ideals were in charge, those laws would probably be actually enforced. This would likely greatly undercut the Communist support base in the countryside, and lead to a Nationalist victory in the eventual civil war.

I see a Chiang-led Communist Party as being not really dedicated Communist at all, possibly something like the Viet Minh; more nationalist than Communist. They would stick closer to the Stalinist line in an effort to get more Soviet aid.

Of course, I have no idea how you go about switching them.
 
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