If you go back and look at the days of the Russia and Chinese communist movements in the early 20th century, left wing intellectuals openly discuss and debate about political strategies and militant tactics, and it is this endless cycle of iterations that drove their movements forward.

Let’s take Mao’s land reform, as an example. Once you have grasped the principal contradiction and its solution (the transformation of feudal peasant class into a revolutionary class, skipping over the proletariat stage), you unleash the full potential of the revolutionary fervor of the working class that even Chiang’s army that outnumbered the Red Army by many times was completely and utterly defeated.

What was Chiang Kai-shek doing to do about it? Nothing - the CPC won because of its ideological superiority, not because it had the largest military or resources.

You cannot cheat historical and dialectical materialism, just like you cannot defy the laws of physics. Marxism-Leninism is called scientific socialism for precisely this reason!