Revolution and counterrevolution in China : the paradoxes of Chinese struggle /
A history of revolutionary China in the 20th century. China under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the belt and road initiative to its involvement in great power struggles with the west, China is facing the world once more in the hope of reclaiming a lost Chinese greatnes...
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
Verso,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Part One Revolution and History; China and Global Capitalism
- 1. Awakening To The Modern World ; Marx and revolutions in Asia before Europe ; Class and nation: Imperialism, nationalism and uneven development ; Revolutionary modernity ; National autonomy or global integration? - 2. Revolutions And Reforms ; Revolutions as markers of history ; The significance of the Chinese Communist Revolution ; The politics of periodization (i): Revolutions ; Market reform derailed ; The politics of periodization (ii): Reforms
- Part Two: The Construction and Destruction of a Revolutionary State - 3. From The Rural Margins
- How new was China's new bourgeois democratic revolution? ; The land revolution and peoples war ; The regional path of state building ; The revolutionary state: A contradiction in terms? - 4. State Capacity And The Mutation Of Power ; Socialist planning and national development ; Can bureaucratization be countered? Mass line politics and economic democracy ; Paradoxes of continuous revolution': Democracy and dictatorship ; Why did the Cultural Revolution fail? ; Revolutionary legacies ; The revenge of bureaucracy
- Part Three The Neoliberal Adaptation
- 5. Counterrevolution And Political Economy ; Decollectivization: The counterfactual of double-level management ; `Earthbound China': The land question and urban illusion ; The logic and perils of privatization: State sector transformed ; Asymmetrical globalization: The dependency trap ; Neoliberalizing the state - 6. The Remaking Of Class And Social Relations ; From the politics of recognition to a muted class language ; Workers' subalternization and organizational dilemma ; The unmaking of a revolutionary and collective peasantry ; Contested identity equality and autonomy: The spatial politics of citizenship ; From women's liberation to reinventing feminism without socialism ; The return of class politics - 7. From Internationalism To Globalism ; Liberation nationalism and Third World internationalism ; Losing the world? China's global repositioning ; National rejuvenation and neoglobalism: Dreams and impediments ; Illusions of reinventing tradition: Confucian universalism meets realpolitik ; Lost in accumulation? Reconstructing the national and international
- Part Four Socialism, the Spectre
- 8. The Impasse Of Ideological Defeatism ; `Farewell to revolution?' ; Debating the China model ; Political reform: Whose legality? What democracy? ; A party without theory ; The dialectic of hegemony and cultural politics
- Epilogue. This Is The Last Struggle ; Fighting coronavirus ; Reassessing China's global position ; Issues with long-term strategy ; Defining a critical socialist stance ; `This is the last struggle, unite for tomorrow.' ; Dialectic of revolution and counterrevolution