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Marxism in the Chinese Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Marxism in the Chinese Revolution (Hardcover, New)
Series: State & Society in East Asia
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Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian
Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in
Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of
the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages
Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations
of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and
cultural liberation in Communist alternatives to capitalism and the
intellectual inspiration to realize their hopes in Marxist theory.
The book's historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its
global relevance while avoiding dogmatic and Eurocentric
limitations. These incisive essays range from the origins of
socialism in the early twentieth century, through the victory of
the Communists in mid-century, to the virtual abandonment by
century's end of any pretense to a socialist revolutionary project
by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. All that remains
of the revolution in historical hindsight are memories of its
failures and misdeeds, but Dirlik retains a critical perspective
not just toward the past but also toward the ideological hegemonies
of the present. Taken together, his writings reaffirm the
centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history. They also
illuminate the fundamental importance of Marxism to grasping the
flaws of capitalist modernity, despite the fact that in the end the
socialist response was unable to transcend the social and
ideological horizons of capitalism.
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