Showing papers by "Colin Mackerras published in 1982"
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TL;DR: The most significant change has been the demotion of the role of class struggle; no longer the "key link" from the time of the Third Plenum, it has come to rank fairly low in the minds of Chinese Marxists as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Summary The comprehensive re-evaluation of Maoism at the official level in China extends to historiography, political ideology and the Arts. The most significant change has been the demotion of the role of class struggle; no longer the ‘key link’ from the time of the Third Plenum, it has come to rank fairly low in the minds of Chinese Marxists. As a result, in considering the motive forces of history much weight can be transferred to the role of the productive forces or elsewhere. The significance of mass movements declines. It is no longer necessary or even desirable to restrict ‘bourgeois right’ as a principle of income distribution and an encouragement to high productivity. Humanitarianism becomes an important component of Marxism rather than something to be treated with suspicion. Above all, ‘continuing the revolution’ becomes not the transformation of social relations between classes in the intermediate time-horizon, but a question of modernization and expanding diffusion of modern technology.
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