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Unending Capitalism - How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution (Paperback, New title)
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Unending Capitalism - How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution (Paperback, New title)
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What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and
communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death
during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's
Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end
capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric
of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies
actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded
consumerism. This negated the goals of the Communist Revolution
across the Mao era (1949-1976) down to the present. Through topics
related to state attempts to manage what people began to desire -
wristwatches and bicycles, films and fashion, leisure travel and
Mao badges - Gerth challenges fundamental assumptions about
capitalism, communism, and countries conventionally labeled as
socialist. In so doing, his provocative history of China suggests
how larger forces related to the desire for mass-produced consumer
goods reshaped the twentieth-century world and remade people's
lives.
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