Peng Pai Peasant Movement Ideas And Strategies

Beginning with revolutionary and conservative instinct of the peasants in Haifeng a, this paper describes how Peng Pai could successfully stimulate the revolutionary instinct of the peasants and organizing them. Through revolutionary practice, Peng Pai gained series of experience on stimulating peasants. Specifically, Peng Pai organized peasants by ideology mechanism, interest mechanism and organization mechanism.Firstly, on ideology mechanism, this paper mainly elaborates how to cultivate the class consciousness of peasants. Peng Pai provokes the absolute deprivation of peasants through comparison of payment and gain between peasants and landlords, so as to form the cognitive of weak role in society by peasants themselves. This kind of identification of class status successfully developed the class consciousness in the peasants'mind. The second is interests. By breaking the traditional rules, Peng Pai gradually activated and strengthened the demand of the interests of the peasants. He dedicatedly made the simple demand framed into the peasant organization, reinforced the power of the peasant movement. Confronting the growing interest demand of peasants, Peng Pai took the measures of economic struggle and political struggle to satisfy peasants. On the organization, this paper states a community of protection and being protected which formed between peasants and their associate. The peasants associate was enhanced by enthusiastic participation of majority of lower class peasants. And peasants associate offer peasants lots of channel by which they could fight for interests. Finally, this paper summarizes the political consequences of these behaviors. On one hand, peasant movements spread like a storm, and on the other hand, the struggles further strengthened the class consciousness of peasants. This paper also describes that, by promoting the expansion of the interests desire, the bloody struggle between peasants and landlords eventually evolved into the terrorist acts of radical revolution. Then the peasants associate be controlled by the peasants'simple revolutionary desire, through further action to intensify contradiction which strengthen the decisions of class struggle. However, because the peasants played a weak role in class struggle, the peasant movements finally were suppressed and turned into recession.Haifeng peasant movement occupies an important position in the history of Chinese revolution. There is no doubt about the revolutionary character of the peasant movement. But in the early stages of the revolution in that historic environment, the immaturity, extensive and radical nature of the peasant movement were also inevitable. While Chinese communist revolution gradually expanded, the political thoughts and political experience of Chinese revolutionaries get more mature in struggle. The shortcomings of the Haifeng peasant movement would be overcome by the new revolutionaries. And finally, the experiences which were provided by this period of history will be absorbed into the Chinese thought.