The First Kuomintang-Communist Party Cooperation From The Perspective Of The Advanced Culture

To represent the onward direction of the advanced culture is theaction rule and standard of advanced parties. Based on the time clueof the process of the first Kuomintang-Communist Partycooperation—from its establishment to its development to its breaking,this article analyses the advanced culture and studies the influence ofthe advanced culture of the period on the first Kuomintang-Communist Party cooperation.The introduction analyses the conception of the advanced cultureof 1920s' and points out the main connotation of the advanced cultureduring the first Kuomintang-Communist Party cooperation.The first section points out that the establishment of the firstKuomintang-Communist Party cooperation was based on the fact,that was both of Kuomintang and the Communist Party representedthe onward direction of the advanced culture: the fading of the oldThree People's Principles on the historical arena forced members ofKuomintang which took Sun Yat-sen as core to explore the new theoryto save the nation and the people. The widespread dissemination ofMarxism in China and the great victory of the October Revolution litthe culture rays of hope; the rise of the new Three People's principles,which was allied with Russia and the Communist Party and assistedthe peasants and workers, laid the solid cultural and spiritualfoundation for the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation.The second section expounds how the advanced culture promotedthe development of the first Kuomintang-Communist Partycooperation entirely: the permeation of the advanced culture into thelower masses initiated the change of the masses of workers andpeasants and boosted the development of workers and peasants'movement to grow vigorously; Under the forcing of the advanced culture, Kuomintang and the Communist Party realized the coalitionon the area of the culture and education.Through analysis of the deviation from the advanced culture ofKuomintang and the Communist Party during the late period of thefirst Kuomintang-Communist Party cooperation, the third sectionpoints out the deep-level reason of the breaking of the firstKuomintang-Communist Party cooperation: the Right of Kuomintangdistorted the true meaning of the new Three People's Principles, andamplified the negative contents of the new Three People's Principlesto set up the theoretical foundation for their action against the CCPand against the masses. Limited by their theoretical level, themembers of the CCP understood Marxism dogmatically, which led tothe popularization of Chen Duxiu's opportunism. Under the guiding ofthe opportunism, the CCP yielded to the reactionary actions ofKuomintang's Right, which indirectly accelerated the breaking of thefirst Kuomintang-Communist Party cooperation. After the breaking ofthe first Kuomintang-Communist Party cooperation, the CCP began toexplore Chinese revolutionary route independently and graduallysought out a revolutionary route that fitted the Chinese conditions onthe premise of insisting on making Marxism sinicized.