The biggest difference between the left and right factions of the Kuomintang lies in the three major policies proposed by Sun Yat-sen and the attitude towards the Communist Party.
At the end of 1923, Sun Yat-sen convened a meeting on the reorganization of the Kuomintang, which determined the three major policies of uniting Russia, uniting the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers.
In a nutshell:the left wing of the Kuomintang, pro-communist and supportive of the three major policies; The right wing of the Kuomintang, ** and boycotted the three major policies(The time period is 1924-1927).
01 The left wing of the Kuomintang
Before 1927, the left wing of the Kuomintang, represented by Liao Zhongkai, Soong Ching-ling, and Wang Ching-wei (later betrayed), sought to advocate cooperation with the Communist Party, overthrow the warlord powers, and strive for national independence.
At the beginning, Liao Zhongkai was the leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang and a faithful executor and defender of Sun Yat-sen's three major policies.
Liao Zhongkai supported the workers' and peasants' revolutionary movement and sincerely cooperated with the Communists, which effectively promoted the development of the Chinese national revolution.
On August 20, 1925, Liao Zhongkai was assassinated by the Kuomintang rightists, and the leftists were headed by Wang Jingwei.
In 1927, the Wuhan Nationalists led by Wang Jingwei launched the July 15 counter-revolutionary coup d'état, "splitting the Communist Party" and wantonly smashing the Communists, which led to the failure of the Great Revolution launched by the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the collapse of the old left.
Subsequently, Soong Ching-ling, He Xiangning and others re-formed the left wing of the Kuomintang (also known as the democratic faction) and continued to defend Sun Yat-sen's three major policies in order to save the Chinese revolution.
In the following decades, the New Left led by Soong Ching-ling unswervingly pursued the three major policies and made important contributions to the founding of New China.
In 1948, the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang was established, which mainly consisted of former Kuomintang leftists and their descendants, with Soong Ching-ling as honorary chairman.
02 The right wing of the Kuomintang
The right wing of the Kuomintang is divided into the old right and the new right.
After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, the Kuomintang rightists (old rightists, Xishan Conference factions) represented by Feng Jiefu, Hu Hanmin, Lin Sen, Zou Lu, Deng Zeru, Zhang Ji, and Xie Zhi openly opposed Sun Yat-sen's three major policies.
In August 1925, after the old rightists assassinated Liao Zhongkai, the leader of the left wing of the Kuomintang, they were hit hard by the leftists and went downhill.
Subsequently, the New Right represented by Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Jitao was formed, and after the "Zhongshan Ship Incident" and the "Sorting Out Party Affairs Case" in 1926, the Communists were excluded and their power swelled dramatically.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek, the representative of the New Right, launched the April 12 coup d'état, seized power and purged the party, wantonly the Communist Party members and the revolutionary masses, and the left wing of the Kuomintang also suffered a heavy blow.
Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek set up a separate "Kuomintang**" in Nanjing to confront Wang Jingwei's Wuhan National**, and the original old rightists also took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek, and the Kuomintang rightists completely became Kuomintang reactionaries.
It was not until the liberation of Nanjing in April 1949 that the right wing of the Kuomintang (reactionary) was declared extinct.
To sum up, the biggest difference between the left and right factions of the Kuomintang lies in their attitude towards Sun Yat-sen's three major policies and their attitude towards the Communist Party. the left wing of the Kuomintang, pro-communist and supportive of the three major policies; The right wing of the Kuomintang, ** and boycotted the three major policies
When we often refer to the Kuomintang reactionaries, we mean the Kuomintang rightists.
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