任何政治组织开展社会革命活动,总需要经费支撑。否则该组织的活动难以维持。在中共创建史的研究中,学界近年来关于党的早期的活动经费研究取得了一定的进展~①。这些研究的主要观点是,中共创建时期的活动经费主要来自共产国际(主要是苏联)的援助,更有甚者认为共产国际的支持是早期党的活动经费的唯一来源。本文以中国共产党的第一个组织——上海共产主义小 Any political organization that carries out social revolutionary activities always needs financial support. Otherwise, the organization’s activities are difficult to sustain. In the study of the history of the CPC creation, the academic community made some progress in the study of the funding of the party’s early activities in recent years. The main point of view of these studies is that during the founding of the CCP, the activities mainly came from assistance from the Communist International (mainly from the Soviet Union). What is more, the support of the Comintern was the sole source of funds for the activities of the Party in the early years. In this paper, the first organization of the Communist Party of China - Shanghai communist small