Wang Ming
Wang Ming (; May 23, 1904 – March 27, 1974) was a senior leader of the early
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the mastermind of the famous
28 Bolsheviks group. Wang was also a major political rival of
Mao Zedong during the 1930s, opposing what he saw as Mao's nationalist deviation from the
Comintern and orthodox
Marxist–Leninist lines. According to Mao on the other hand, Wang epitomized the intellectualism and foreign dogmatism Mao criticized in his essays "On Practice" and "On Contradiction". The competition between Wang and Mao was a reflection of the power struggle between the
Soviet Union, through the vehicle of the Comintern, and the CCP to control both the direction and future of the
Chinese Communist Revolution.
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