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Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo. Greg Benton editor. Brill Historical Materialism Series, 2015; Haymarket Books, 2017, xvii + 1289 pages, $55 paperback.

But although the political reawakening of some young people in China and the Chinese diaspora is potentially important, their movement is only just beginning

What does it mean to speak of Chinese Trotskyism, and what is its relevance for us today? [1] While early leaders of the Left Opposition in China were some of the key founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the most knowledgeable readers of Marx, this tradition had also been marginalized, vilified, and later brutally suppressed by the CCP under Mao.