The whole point of Deng’s reforms was opposition to everything the Cultural Revolution was doing! Not just negating its changes but then moving in the opposite direction (as the CR was specifically instated to counter Dengists and their ilk). Saying China should do another CR is like saying it should do another country-wide land redistribution. It would be cool if someone had a magic wand but short of that, it’s opposed to state ideology.
Besides, I think the place to start would probably be in the universities themselves and not hangout spots, since the amount of people studying liberal economics in China (better known there, as here, as “economics”) is at minimum an order of magnitude larger than those studying Marxism, and that’s still SWCC Marxism in the main, i.e. the ideology that got us to this condition where a completed CR is necessary.
Incidentally, I’m reading a book about this right at this very moment. Deng reforms were never meant to liberalize China or make it capitalist. It was a measure that was meant to allow China to catch up to the west. This has been accomplished now, and we’re seeing a push from the party to wind down the role of private sector in the economy.
Again, what I described above isn’t some drastic reeducation campaign, but rather firming up of the socialist ideological line within the intellectual sphere. Meanwhile, the notion that people aren’t studying Marxism in China is frankly absurd. In fact, there’s plenty of evidence that the opposite is the case.
This has been accomplished now, and we’re seeing a push from the party to wind down the role of private sector in the economy.
Wake me up when Xi or that Shanghai liberal who is going to replace him actually call for struggle against the domestic bourgeoisie.
the notion that people aren’t studying Marxism in China is frankly absurd.
Reread what I said. You read a lot, I’m sure you can manage my straightforward statements.
That first article – aside from being a novella – is a really strange thing to link in this context. You can read countless articles, mostly from neoliberal sources, wherein Maoist student protestors, union organizers, etc. get violently repressed by the state. I know that Maoism exists among segments of the people in China, these stories are even used by neoliberals to delegitimize China’s ideological claims. This is a much better argument against Deng’s legacy, taken at face value (though I am not just going to take neoliberal reporting on China at face value, I’m not a Trot). Also, just read through the footnotes to get a good handle of the authorial perspective there.
The second one is a collection of anecdotes, and they are nice anecdotes, but the fact remains. I’ll definitely check out Awakening Age, though.
I agree that what you are discussing is in line with the idea behind the Cultural Revolution. That wasn’t my question.
I guess you have to be more specific regarding what about that you think is at odds with SWCC.
The whole point of Deng’s reforms was opposition to everything the Cultural Revolution was doing! Not just negating its changes but then moving in the opposite direction (as the CR was specifically instated to counter Dengists and their ilk). Saying China should do another CR is like saying it should do another country-wide land redistribution. It would be cool if someone had a magic wand but short of that, it’s opposed to state ideology.
Besides, I think the place to start would probably be in the universities themselves and not hangout spots, since the amount of people studying liberal economics in China (better known there, as here, as “economics”) is at minimum an order of magnitude larger than those studying Marxism, and that’s still SWCC Marxism in the main, i.e. the ideology that got us to this condition where a completed CR is necessary.
Incidentally, I’m reading a book about this right at this very moment. Deng reforms were never meant to liberalize China or make it capitalist. It was a measure that was meant to allow China to catch up to the west. This has been accomplished now, and we’re seeing a push from the party to wind down the role of private sector in the economy.
Again, what I described above isn’t some drastic reeducation campaign, but rather firming up of the socialist ideological line within the intellectual sphere. Meanwhile, the notion that people aren’t studying Marxism in China is frankly absurd. In fact, there’s plenty of evidence that the opposite is the case.
https://field-journal.com/issue-26/the-interwining-of-knowledge-affect-life-and-mentality-chinese-youths-turn-to-marxist-leninist-maoist-in-contemporary-china/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1230909.shtml
Wake me up when Xi or that Shanghai liberal who is going to replace him actually call for struggle against the domestic bourgeoisie.
Reread what I said. You read a lot, I’m sure you can manage my straightforward statements.
That first article – aside from being a novella – is a really strange thing to link in this context. You can read countless articles, mostly from neoliberal sources, wherein Maoist student protestors, union organizers, etc. get violently repressed by the state. I know that Maoism exists among segments of the people in China, these stories are even used by neoliberals to delegitimize China’s ideological claims. This is a much better argument against Deng’s legacy, taken at face value (though I am not just going to take neoliberal reporting on China at face value, I’m not a Trot). Also, just read through the footnotes to get a good handle of the authorial perspective there.
The second one is a collection of anecdotes, and they are nice anecdotes, but the fact remains. I’ll definitely check out Awakening Age, though.