Wang Ming (Chinese: 王明) (23 May1904 –27 March1974) was a senior leader of the earlyCommunist Party of China (CPC) and the mastermind of the famous28 Bolsheviks group. Wang was also a major political rival ofMao Zedong during the 1930s, opposing what he saw as Mao's nationalist deviation from theComintern and orthodoxMarxist–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 theSoviet Union, through the vehicle of the Comintern, and the CPC to control both the direction and future of theChinese revolution.
Translation:Today China is facingThe struggle between two nations, the struggle between new bornChinese Soviet Republic and the rottenRepublic of China, the struggle between these two nations, determined the whole of political life of China, this sharp confrontation between these two regimes, is the core of the total of the current Chinese political life.
Translation:In many places, bandits had begun to infiltrate peasants movement, gradually bandits directly are helping the peasant's struggle, this is a fact that we communist party members should be aware of the relationship between party members and bandits. We(communist party members) should infiltrate among the bandits....we can organize them into the struggle of revolution.
