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Marxism, China, and Development - Reflections on Theory and Reality (Hardcover)
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Marxism, China, and Development - Reflections on Theory and Reality (Hardcover)
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China has always been something of a mystery to Westerners. For one
genera-tion, Mao Zedong and his followers were simple "agrarian
reformers," while for another they were the "communist emperor and
his blue ants." In the 1970s, some of the finest Sinologists
believed there was much the United States could learn from Mao's
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution with regard to bureaucracy,
criminal justice, health care, and mass education. By the 1980s,
those same theo-rists asserted that Maoism was nothing more than a
feudal fascism and had abso-lutely nothing positive to teach.
Marxism, China, and Development provides a plausible explanation of
these developments that have had such a powerful effect on the
people of China for the past half century. The author describes and
explains the strange collection of beliefs that made up the Marxism
of Mao Zedong. He seeks to understand why the communist leader-ship
of China, like that of the USSR, tried to spur economic growth by
abandoning the market modalities common to developed economies. A.
James Gregor's con-ceptual framework is both original, and makes
more comprehensible the history of Marxism and the history of
China. Among the major topics he covers are imperi-alism, political
democracy, economics, and alternatives to Maoism and Marxism for
China. While it is unlikely that our understanding of so complex a
series of events as modern Chinese history will soon become less
controversial, Marxism, China, and Development's clear, concise
explanations will clarify some perplexing areas, and make the new
turns in Chinese political economy more understandable. This is a
monumental effort at theory construction that will be of interest
to political scien-tists, economists, sociologists, and
Sinologists.
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