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All good points. Though still, the CPC has and always did have a more well defined path than the kuomintang, and thus a lot more unity within the party than the KMT had. This was one of the big reasons that Mao won. Another issue is that chiang kai shek was ideologically incredibly inconsistent. He began his regime as a socialist ultra and was compared (perhaps erroneously, but still) with Lenin and Stalin frequently and positively. In some aspects, Chiang was more of a socialist ultra than Mao was. For example, Mao posited a (very limited) form of class collaboration where the petty bourgeoisie would work with the peasantry and workers. Chiang Kai Shek would have none of this, and would often march his armies into the cities to liquidate swathes of his enemy, the bourgeoisie.

But at the same time that Chiang Kai Shek wanted to be a leninist superman, he also wanted to be a traditionalist confucian reactionary. Eventually the latter took precedence over the former for him, so he launched a military campaign against not only the CPC, but also the left-kuomintang. After this path, he decided to become enamored with mussolini and later hitler. But he could never make a full pivot to any type of fascism, so he eventually lost the support of both. Eventually he became an anti fascist, and then was invaded by Japan. But he remained an anti communist and an anti capitalist. Anti-communist, anti-fascist, anti-reactionary, and anti-capitalist. Chiang was anti everything, and so he found himself completely isolated with nobody willing to actually support him.

After he was kicked out, he became an authoritarian capitalist. Probably out of necessity, if there's one consistency he *did* have, it was hatred of capitalism, but he needed US support for Taiwan to be able to exist.

That being said, "Chiangism" is not on its own a dysfunctional belief system. Chiang Kai shek was just an inconsistent man who wanted to be everything and nothing all at once. Xi Jinping today can be considered to be a far less impulsive Chiang Kai Shek who actually saw his vision through to the end. China greatly benefits, more or less, from the system that Chiang Kai Shek (initially) thought of. The issue with the system originally was that Chiang was the man behind it.

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