What lead to the Kuomintang to be pushed out of power ideologically and to be replaced with a Maoist personality cult? Military it was obvious, the Chinese Republic was exhausted from its campaigns against the Japanese, but what lead the people to ideologically support the communists?
>>1342988
-Corruption, a lot of it.
-Economic pressure
-Bold head can't manage a nation.
-Bold head wants to kill of CCP once and for all, again.(failed, if not oblivious)
-Communists ideology appeals to the common masses(free school, land, food,etc.)
-Mao is more appealing to the masses at the time.
Result:RAVALOTION!!!!
>Kuomintang
They were extremely corrupt and their message didn't really appeal to the bajillions of peasant masses that the commies could mobilize.
>>1342988
The KMT started off as one of a number of warlord movements that gripped China in the 1910s-20s. Even after "winning" and ascending to the rule of China, they never really shook that warlord model of administration. They had a core corridor running roughly from Shanghai to Chonquing (or however you spell it) and everything else they just set up people in place and expected tribute of arms and money and troops from time to time.
They were really more akin to a feudalistic government, with a high king exerting influence over vassal kings, rather than a modern state which actually directly rules its territory.
This weak form of governance leads to lots of power vacuums, which the Communists eventually filled.
>>1342997
>>1343001
Le corruption maymay xDDd
>>1342988
They never really did. According to pic related, KMT and CCP popularity would favor the othet almost each year after the war. It was the Korean War that gave the CCP legitimacy, because "WE BEAT EVIL IMPERIALIST POWERS"
Also it is worth noting that KMT ideology never died. According to a book called "Mao's famine" villagers in Mainland would go out and kill Comminist officals and flag with the KMT emblem to welcome Chiang because of rumors of a Nationalist invasion, andinvasion that never came. The village was probably burned to the ground, sadly i do not remember the name. Any information from anons would be helpful, or i could just pick the book up again.
>>1343664
Well, the last warlords didn't get quelled before '60s. It wasnt really feudal. Chiang's territory fairly centrelised. Though KMT territory as awhole were kinda what you describe.
Left-wing intellectuals like Edgar Snow, Owen Lattimore and Brooks Atkinson lied to the U.S. media about corruption in the Kuomintang and about democracy in the CCP. The U.S. government, which was by itself filled with communist spies (see the Amerasia affair), "believed", and withdrew support from the nationalists.
