Welcome, young historians! 🕵️‍♀️ Today, we're diving into the ideological battle between Mao Zedong and the pro-Moscow elements in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) about where the real revolutionary potential lay: cities or the countryside?

• Main Argument: Follow the Comintern's (Communist International) instructions to focus the revolution in urban areas.
• Why?
  • The laws of dialectic follow a set path; don't skip steps!
  • Peasant revolution is just a warm-up; the real deal is the proletariat (working class) revolution.
  • China doesn’t have an urban working class; therefore, it can't have a "genuine" revolution.
  • The best CCP could do is to merge with the Nationalists.

🤓 Did You Know?: Imagine you’re learning to cook and you want to skip straight to baking a cake without ever cracking an egg. The Comintern is like your grandma telling you, "No shortcuts in my kitchen!"

• Main Argument: China's revolution must come from the peasants in rural areas.
• Why?
  • 88% of China’s massive 500 million population are rural peasants.
  • In China, a peasant revolution fulfills the dialectic.
  • No need to wait for an industrial working class.

🍀 Real-World Example: Think of peasants as the ultimate grassroots campaign. You know how community organizing can lead to big changes? Well, Mao saw that potential but with the peasants of China!