Marxist Boundaries

In Chinese Leaders Revive Marxist Orthodoxy, Willy Lam reports,

Ideologues and propagandists have, since the winter, been waging a campaign that is focused on “distinguishing four boundaries.” In a nutshell, party commissars are demanding that China’s intellectuals, particularly college teachers and students, make clear-cut distinctions between four sets of values. They are Marxism versus anti-Marxism; a mixed economy that is led by Chinese-style public ownership on the one hand, and an economic order that is dominated by either private capital or total state ownership on the other; democracy under socialism with Chinese characteristics versus Western capitalist democracy; and socialist thoughts and culture on the one hand, and feudal and corrupt capitalist ideas and culture on the other (People’s Daily, March 23; Liberation Army Daily, December 22, 2009).

In Chinese, the four great boundaries (四个重大界限; sorry for the awful translation) are something like this:

。。。自觉划清马克思主义同反马克思主义的界限，社会主义公有制为主体、多种所有制经济共同发展的基本经济制度同私有化和单一公有制的界限，中国特色社会主义民主同西方资本主义民主的界限，社会主义思想文化同封建主义、资本主义腐朽思想文化的界限。。。