Abstract

Communism in China

The article discusses the rise of Communism in China. Communism, which was apparently dealt its deathblow three years ago, has reappeared greatly strengthened by the internal discord of war lords and today no less than one-twentieth of the people of China rule themselves through Local organizations resembling Soviets. This revolution has consisted primarily of local peasant revolts in isolated sections of the country, but today there is a strong red army, which is said to number 100,000 men, well intrenched throughout the regions of the middle Yangtze River Valley, China, in the very heart of China. This new movement, unlike the revolution of 1927, appears to be indigenous in character, for although tactics are much the same as those used in the Soviet Revolution, there has been apparently no active Soviet aid in the present effort.