China Marxism and Democracy

Informationen zum Autor By Thomas Barrett Klappentext Based originally on articles that appeared in Hong Kong's revolutionary socialist magazine October Review! this collection of intriguing essays question whether totalitarianism and bureaucratic mismanagement are the inevitable results of any attempt to create a socialist soicety as envisioned by Marx and Engels. The writers show that Deng Xiaoping's reforms guided China toward a restored capitalism while maintaining the Chinese Communist Party's harsh dictatorship. Zusammenfassung Based originally on articles that appeared in Hong Kong's revolutionary socialist magazine October Review! this collection of intriguing essays question whether totalitarianism and bureaucratic mismanagement are the inevitable results of any attempt to create a socialist soicety as envisioned by Marx and Engels. The writers show that Deng Xiaoping's reforms guided China toward a restored capitalism while maintaining the Chinese Communist Party's harsh dictatorship.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Barrett, Barrett Thomas
• Assisted by: Thomas Barrett (Editor)
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9781573923675
• ISBN: 978-1-57392-367-5
• No. of pages: 263
• Series: Revolutionary Studies (Hardcov; Revolutionary Studies; Revolutionary Studies; Revolutionary Studies (Hardcov
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political structures: democracy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Political structures / systems: democracy