China Confronts Contradictions Between Marxism and Markets Campaign Seeks to Modernize Ideology, Given Capitalist Trends By Edward Cody
The Communist Party has launched a campaign among political leaders and senior academics to modernize Chinese Marxism, seeking to reconcile increasingly obvious contradictions between the government's founding ideology and its broad free-market reforms.
The Communist Party has launched a campaign among political leaders and senior academics to modernize Chinese Marxism, seeking to reconcile increasingly obvious contradictions between the government's founding ideology and its broad free-market reforms....
Scholars from the Central Party School and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have said they would look for inspiration in past Chinese interpretations of Marxism. These include Mao Zedong's founding thoughts, Deng Xiaoping's liberalization theory and former president Jiang Zemin's Three Represents doctrine, which urges embracing capitalist and other leaders in addition to workers and peasants.
Some analysts have suggested that the research project could be designed to produce an elaboration of Hu's own, still vague theory calling for a "harmonious society," which he would then seek to enshrine as a national legacy the way his predecessors did.
What a load of bollocks. I've been wondering a
long time about how Chinese college students felt about studying this propaganda in a society that is no longer socialist. Guess what; ideology has nothing to do with it.
In any case, a senior diplomat suggested, most of the argument within the party arises in the context of factions competing for power and patronage, rather than genuine doctrinal differences.
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