China’s Two Revolutionary Alliance Structures | Generated by AI
This question tests knowledge of the two alliance structures within China’s revolutionary united front.
Question Analysis
The revolutionary united front contains two basic alliances:
First Alliance: Alliance between the working class and the peasant class, intellectuals, and other laborers
- Core: worker-peasant alliance
- This is an alliance among working people
Second Alliance: Alliance between the working class and non-laboring people
- Mainly the alliance with the national bourgeoisie
- This is an alliance across class boundaries
Why D instead of C
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Option C (petty bourgeoisie) is wrong: The petty bourgeoisie includes artisans, small merchants, etc. Although they own small amounts of means of production, they mainly live by their own labor, so they belong to the laborer category and should be included in the first alliance
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Option D (national bourgeoisie) is correct: The national bourgeoisie owns means of production, hires workers, and doesn’t directly engage in labor. They belong to non-laboring people and are the main target of the second alliance
Key Distinction
- Laboring people: Workers, peasants, petty bourgeoisie, intellectuals, etc.
- Non-laboring people: National bourgeoisie (but not the bureaucratic bourgeoisie, which is a target of revolution)
The difficulty of this concept lies in accurately distinguishing the boundary between “laboring people” and “non-laboring people,” and understanding the dual nature of the national bourgeoisie—both an object of the united front and a non-laboring class.