1st Edition

Marxism, China, and Development Reflections on Theory and Reality

By A. James Gregor Copyright 1995
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: The Chinese Communist Critique of Mao Zedong; 3: Transformations; 4: Maoist Economics; 5: The “Second Revolution” in Mao’s China; 6: Alternatives; 7: Sun Yat-sen; 8: Imperialism, Marxism, and Sun Yat-sen; 9: Marxism, Maoism, and Political Democracy; 10: Sun Yat-sen and Political Democracy; 11: Conclusions

Biography

A. James Gregor