Chinese Marxism / Adrian Chan
- Bib ID:
- 2368204
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chan, Adrian, 1936-
- Description:
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- New York : Continuum, 2002
- [vi], 218 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0826450334
- Summary:
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"However, not all party leaders accepted this Marxian praxis and this has led to continuous conflict between proponents of Maoist Marxism and Soviet-type, scientific Marxism-Leninism. Chinese Marxism presents detailed studies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution to Illustrate the consequences of this ongoing ideological conflict, and brings the story up to the present day with an analysis of the current Thermidorean Reaction and the controversial embracing of Confucianism."--BOOK JACKET.
"It has long been argued that Chinese Marxism was merely an offshoot of Soviet thought blended with ill-defined traditional Chinese ideas. Using previously neglected Chinese sources - including newspapers, political journals and Communist Party documents - Chan refutes this view. Showing how the first Chinese revolutionaries were directly influenced by the writings of Marx, Chinese Marxism argues that Bolshevism was only a secondary influence on Chinese communist thought. Mao himself drew upon Marxian themes in the creation of party orthodoxy, and in doing so he signalled his differences from Lenin and Stalin on important issues of theory and practice.".
- Full contents:
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- 1. A Marxian message to pre-industrialized societies
- 2. Social and economic conditions in China
- 3. The road to Marxism
- 4. Chinese Marxism through the Cold War prism
- 5. The first fruits I: the removal of 'delusive prejudices'
- 6. The first fruits II: towards a Marxian cultural theory
- 7. Mao Zedong Thought
- 8. Chinese Marxism in action: two case studies
- 9. The Thermidorian reaction: a crisis of legitimacy
- 10. To sum up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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