A Study Of The Chinese Communist Party’s Cognition Of The Cooperation Between The Kuomintang And The Communist Party During The Great Revolution

"The Guide Weekly" is the first official agency publication founded by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.Its publication time spans the entire period of the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.It has high research value for studying how the Communist Party of China understands the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.This article analyzes the articles published by Chinese Communists in "The Guide Weekly" in different periods,sorts out and summarizes the Chinese Communists’ understanding of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party during the Great Revolution,and focuses on the influence of such perceptions on how the Chinese Communist Party enriched and developed Marxist united front theory and practice in the process of combining the basic principles of Marxism with the reality of the Chinese revolution.This article first sorts out the cognition and understanding of the relationship between the Communist Party of China and other political parties before the formation of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.It analyzes the process and reasons why the Chinese Communist Party’s attitude towards other parties has changed from exclusion to cooperation under the intervention of the Communist International,thus achieving the transformation from rejection to cooperation.The main body of the thesis focuses on the Chinese Communists’ cognition of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party after the formation of the cooperation relationship between the two parties.The Chinese Communist Party believes that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can cooperate,firstly because the Kuomintang is a revolutionary party,and secondly because there is the consistency of revolutionary goal between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.The Chinese Communists realized that the key factors affecting the cooperation between the two parties is whether they can mobilize the masses of workers and peasants,uncompromise with the outside world,and suppress the right wing in the KMT.With the advancement of the Kuomintang cooperation,after the climax of the Revolution,the Chinese Communists had different expectations about the future of the two-party cooperation.Based on different understanding of the Kuomintang leftists,some people believed that with the development of the revolutionary situation,the Kuomintang leftists do not have reliable leaders,and the two parties may have fierce conflicts;others insisted that they must cooperate with the Kuomintang.After the failure of the Great Revolution,the Communist Party thought about the reasons why the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was split.It believed that the main reason was that the military dictatorship,bourgeois rebellion,and imperialist support for the anti-Red alliance,which led to the end of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.The Communist Party’s cognition of the cooperative relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has influenced some behavior of the Communist Party in cooperation,and it has also provided valuable experience for the subsequent united front strategy of the Chinese Communist Party.It had a very important impact on how the Chinese Communists later combined Marxist theories on the united front with Chinese practice and promoted its Sinicization in the course of Chinese revolution,construction and reform and opening-up practice.