China and Global Capitalism
Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics
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The question of how to view the position of China in the world in general and with respect to the development of capitalism as a world system in particular is certainly not one of a fixed place of a static ent...
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Marx did not foresee the socialist revolutions in economically backward national settings—the Leninist initiative broke the imperialist chains to create the first Soviet regime in Russia in 1917 and, through a...
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Modern China’s national development defied the teleological “master course” to follow an alternative trajectory. It was essentially a collective search for, successively, a revolutionary alternative to colonia...
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The most creative thinking emerged from China regarding the invigoration of Chinese socialism rejects conventional modernization and globalization in their prevailing forms. The new vision is “local,” local na...
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From a universalist perspective of historical materialism, the position of China in the world and in world history is essentially defined by its relationship with epochal parameters of capitalism. Both entitie...
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For positioning China in the modern world in terms of its relationship with capitalism as a historical materialist account, a few academically or politically influential concepts of traditional China deserve o...
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To position China in the current history of modern capitalism is to look into the relationship between the two as they converge or diverge in their macro socioeconomic and political movements. The self-positio...
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I have been using generic terms such as “the people” and “social,” which are at the same time candid class terms in Chinese political discourse for a threefold reason. First, their actual referents and symboli...
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In light of the review of Marx’s conception of Oriental society and the comparative economic history debate over imperial China’s place in world history in Part I and the past, present, and potential future mo...