I was reading through the Wikipedia entry on the Kuomintang and was surprised that they were anti-imperialist and fairly anti-capitalist, at least back in the day. There is a part there that says the Marxist in the KMT thought that China had already passed through it's feudal stage and was in a stagnant capitalist stage. My impression was that the KMT were essentially like the nationalist in German, Japan, or modern USA (they very well may have been, I suppose). I was also a little surprised that the USSR backed the KMT over the CPC too.
So really what was the beef between the two on an ideological basis?
EDIT: Sun Yat-sen is also interesting to read about. The megathread, that I somehow missed reading four months ago, was an interesting review.
Good stuff. Is Settlers even worth bothering with a read compared to Fanon's work? I had it in my head that Fanon was a better read regarding the anti-colonial/anti-imperial parts of theory.
Having read both I'd say (imho) if you could only read one for whatever reason before you kicked the bucket 100% read Fanon, however, Sakai is a lot less academic jargony which may make his work more accessible to some, but he is no where near in depth as Fanon.