Pursuit And Deflection

Zheng Chaolin was a controversial figure in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. His political career and his thoughts changed very greatly during his earlier life. The Failure of the Great Revolution in 1927 was the boundary of his political ideology evolution. Before the failure of the great revolution, Zheng accepted Marxism, after then he relied on Trotskyism. Based on historical materialism and dialectical materialism and the historical, the logistic and the comparative analytical methods, the essay studies the reasons of his political ideology evolution, elaborates, analyses and appraises his political opinions during his earlier life ,and hopes to appraise him objectively.