They thought they had Mao surrounded.

It was 1934. Chiang Kai-shek’s forces—funded by U.S. money and fascist sympathies—had the Red Army pinned down in Jiangxi. The plan? Encircle, crush, and kill the Chinese Revolution once and for all.

But Mao didn’t die. He marched.

🩸 6,000 miles. Over mountains. Through snow. Across warlord territory.

The Long March wasn’t a retreat—it was a rebirth.Only 10% of the Red Army survived. But those who did became the iron spine of the revolution.They didn’t carry gold. They carried books, printing presses, and the will of the people.

“Without the Long March, the Communist Party of China would not exist today.”– Mao Zedong

And what did the Nationalists do in the meantime?

Massacres. Opium. Surrender to the Japanese. That is why Mao held the hearts of peasants who had nothing, because under socialism, the masses led China not a clique of sellouts.

🔥 This wasn’t a military maneuver. It was dialectics in motion. In every setback, contradiction. In every contradiction, transformation.The Red Army didn’t retreat—they reoriented the battlefield. Chiang had U.S. guns. Mao had Marx. In the end, the inevitable tide of history crashed down upon the old pre-scientific views and Chiang swam away to hide behind US Gunships. The Taiwanese question will be settled soon however.