‘How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution: An Appeal to all the Comrades of the Chinese Communist Party’ by Chen Duxiu, 1929.

Originally From: https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2022/12/06/how-stalin-bucharin-destroyed-the-chinese-revolution-an-appeal-to-all-the-comrades-of-the-chinese-communist-party-by-chen-duxiu-1929/ An important document in the history of Chinese Communism. Chen Duxiu, founder and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1921-1928, looks back at the last years of failure and bloodshed (the alliance with the KMT, the KMT massacres in Shanghai, the repressed Guangzhou Uprising, etc), and regrets his role in carrying out the Comintern, then led by Bukharin, mandate during the revolutionary crises of the 1920s. Written shortly after Chen was expelled from the party and the Comintern for ‘Trotskyism’ and published over five…

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