
← People's History of Ideas Podcast11 dic 2025 · 31 min
Chen Duxiu Update (or, the Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands) (1929)
Chen Duxiu Update (or, the Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands) (1929)
The story of how the co-founder and first General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party became a Trotskyist. Further reading: Gregor Benton, China’s Urban Revolutionaries: Explorations in the History of Chinese Trotskyism, 1921-1952 Gregor Benton, Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo Lee Feigon, Chen Duxiu: Founder of the Chinese Communist Party Chang Kuo-t’ao [Zhang Guotao], The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party (2 volumes) Tony Sa...