The Deconstruction,recombination And Benign Interaction Of The Merchants In The Central Soviet Area

The Chamber of Commerce was an organization of merchants established by the government in the late Qing Dynasty to save the country by industry and revitalize business,following the model of chambers of commerce in Western countries.In 1931,the Central Soviet Union was established,and the original merchant groups were gradually transformed.The Soviet government first excluded the buyers and the big bourgeoisie from their rightful place in the state power in the political structure,secondly disbanded the Chamber of Commerce not allowing businessmen to associate and assemble,and by manipulating the Chamber of Commerce became a place for the will of the big businessmen,and then united the poor peasant and middle peasant workers to fight the rich peasant businessmen.After breaking the old organizational system,the Central Soviet Union established the Party’s organization and economic team,penetrated and extended the Party’s organizational network to commercial activities and organizations through organizational embedding,and realized the integration and coverage of the new social forces and social space.Through the above,the Soviet government completed the deconstruction and reorganization of the merchant community and reintegrated the merchant community on this basis,eventually realizing a benign interaction between the Soviet and the merchant community at multiple levels of economy,politics,and culture.The "merchant" was a specific object in the early revolutionary practice of the Chinese Communist Party to analyze the local society by the class path,and it was also one of the important references to see the relationship between the Party and the society at that time.This paper argues that merchants can express three different meanings in a specific revolutionary scenario: first,as professional merchants who satisfy the people’s livelihood needs;second,as political forces who harbor the challenge to political power;and third,the embedding of party organizations to achieve the reconstruction of order.The above dimensions together shape the relationship between the party and the merchant community.This paper intends to examine the changes and development of merchant organizations during the Central Soviet period from the perspective of merchants,analyze the logic and strategies of the CCP in integrating merchants,and focus on the interaction between the Soviet and merchant groups,as well as the specific paths by which the two promoted each other and complemented each other,in order to reveal the impact of political change on the organizational form of merchants and the key role played by the CCP in social change from one side.