It can be stated that Trotskism in China was in fact formed in Russia; Chinese students who studied in Russia at that time, observing struggle for governmental struggle and theoretical arguments between Stalin and Trotsky, sympathized with Trotsky's p...
It can be stated that Trotskism in China was in fact formed in Russia; Chinese students who studied in Russia at that time, observing struggle for governmental struggle and theoretical arguments between Stalin and Trotsky, sympathized with Trotsky's policy line and chose it. When Stalin got rid of Trotsky, after his success in the struggle for the governmental power, the Chinese students in Russia went back to China, advertised Trotskism, and formed its organization.
Around this period, Chen Duxiu came to know Trotskian theory from Russia, realized that it coincided with his ideology, and actively participated in the Troskian policy line. Furthermore, the fact that he was released and dismissed from the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party made him an even stronger supporter of Trotskism. He unified several separated Trotskian parties into the 'Chinese Communism Confederation' for the efficient struggle, and started as the Secretary of this Confederation. Once he had been the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, then he became the Secretary of the Opposing Party.
However, many Trotskian people were arrested and sent into prison by the suppression of the Kuomintang and by the betrayer inside the Trotskian group, and Chen Duxiu was also sent into prison on his second arrest in October 1932. Because of this, Trotskism became a minor party and lost its political power. Chen Duxiu had many experiences, among which were as a political scape goat in the Chinese Communist Party, separation within the Trotskian group, and severe suppression by the Kuomintang and being sent into prison, but he did not lose his consistent viewpoints, which were basically against capitalistic empiricism and for the liberation of suppressed peoples. After his discharge from prison, Chen Duxiu started to study democracy on an aloof ground unbiased to any political parties, in order to complete the great project of democracy which he had argued for throughout his lifetime.