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Arming and Disarming Trotsky's Chinese Prophets
- Twentieth-Century China
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, Number 2, May 2018
- pp. 182-187
- 10.1353/tcc.2018.0018
- Article
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Abstract:
Of the various strands of radical socialism in modern China, Trotskyism is notable for the long-term dedication of its adherents, its ideological rigor, and its critique of orthodox Communism (Stalinism-Maoism), as well as for its fissiparous nature. In Prophets Unarmed, Gregor Benton has assembled a vast array of memoirs, contemporary letters and other documents, and secondary sources that tell the story of Chinese Trotskyism from its beginnings in the 1920s clear through the end of the century.