No Mao

Wi Mao was either never conceived, born a girl or died before 1920.

Would there still be a Communist revolution in China?

Would there still be a Chinese Civil war?

Might China be able to unite against Japanese aggression?
 
Then the CCP might be filled with Chen Duxiu's Trotskyist ideas or the party might be led by a Soviet Bolshevik faction. Assuming that Chiang still cracks down on the CCP in 1927, then the party may have to flee and hide out in the countryside. It would be obvious to anyone that urban influence is no longer viable and somebody would have mentioned the rural populace.
 
Well, Chen Duxiu's brand of communism might gain more traction amongst communists in China.

Chen would have been expelled by the Comintern whether Mao existed or not.

Also, "The so-called 'rural strategy,' which has been attributed to Mao, had in fact originated in Moscow, and Mao only followed the Comintern's policy to organize and arm the peasantry. As early as 1924, Borodin, discouraged by Sun's conservatism, proposed that the CCP go to the countryside to disarm landlords, to organize peasants, and to confiscate large estates to redistribute land to the landless. In late 1926, Stalin urged the CCP to radicalize the peasant movement, and to discard 'the fear that the aggravation of the class struggle in the countryside will weaken the united anti-imperialist front.' Mao's 'Report on Hunan's Peasant Movement' in early 1927 became well known only because the Comintern-CCP leadership supported it..." https://books.google.com/books?id=HZJcxq1DIOYC&pg=PA17
 
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