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[[File:Deng Xiaoping at Madame Tussaud's Hong Kong - Flickr - skinnylawyer.jpg|thumb|533x533px|[[Deng Xiaoping]], a major theorist of Chinese revisionism.]] | [[File:Deng Xiaoping at Madame Tussaud's Hong Kong - Flickr - skinnylawyer.jpg|thumb|533x533px|[[Deng Xiaoping]], a major theorist of Chinese revisionism.]] | ||
'''Chinese revisionism''' encompasses the [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] [[Theory|theoretical]] and political deviations of the [[Revisionism|revisionist]] [[Communist Party of China]] and other movements within the [[People's Republic of China]] and its predecessor states. Revisionists in China rose to power during the bourgeois democratic revolution led by [[Mao Zedong]] and the formation of modern China in 1949, and revisionist governance continues to this day under [[Xi Jinping]]. The prototypical ideology of this revisionist movement was [[Mao Zedong Thought]] (later [[Maoism]]), a collection of [[Eclecticism|eclectic]] inventions and adoptions from sources including [[Confucianism]], [[Liberalism|liberal idealism]], etc. with only subtle influences from [[Marxism]] and revolutionary [[communism]].<ref>Mao Zedong (1964). ''[https:// | '''Chinese revisionism''' encompasses the [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] [[Theory|theoretical]] and political deviations of the [[Revisionism|revisionist]] [[Communist Party of China]] and other movements within the [[People's Republic of China]] and its predecessor states. Revisionists in China rose to power during the bourgeois democratic revolution led by [[Mao Zedong]] and the formation of modern China in 1949, and revisionist governance continues to this day under [[Xi Jinping]]. The prototypical ideology of this revisionist movement was [[Mao Zedong Thought]] (later [[Maoism]]), a collection of [[Eclecticism|eclectic]] inventions and adoptions from sources including [[Confucianism]], [[Liberalism|liberal idealism]], etc. with only subtle influences from [[Marxism]] and revolutionary [[communism]].<ref>Mao Zedong (1964). ''[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_27.htm Talk On Questions Of Philosophy]''. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.<br> | ||
<small>''“To get some experience of class struggle — that’s what I call a university. They argue about which university is better, Peking University or People’s University. For my part I am a graduate of the university of the greenwoods, I learned a bit there. In the past I studied Confucius, and spent six years on the Four Books and the Five Classics. I learned to recite them from memory, but I did not understand them. At that time, I believed deeply in Confucius, and even wrote essays [expounding his ideas]. Later I went to a bourgeois school for seven years. Seven plus six makes thirteen years. I studied all the usual bourgeois stuff — natural science and social science. They also taught some pedagogy. This includes five years of normal school, two years of middle school, and also the time I spent in the library. At that time I believed in Kant’s dualism, especially in his idealism. Originally I was a feudalist and an advocate of bourgeois democracy."''</small></ref> | <small>''“To get some experience of class struggle — that’s what I call a university. They argue about which university is better, Peking University or People’s University. For my part I am a graduate of the university of the greenwoods, I learned a bit there. In the past I studied Confucius, and spent six years on the Four Books and the Five Classics. I learned to recite them from memory, but I did not understand them. At that time, I believed deeply in Confucius, and even wrote essays [expounding his ideas]. Later I went to a bourgeois school for seven years. Seven plus six makes thirteen years. I studied all the usual bourgeois stuff — natural science and social science. They also taught some pedagogy. This includes five years of normal school, two years of middle school, and also the time I spent in the library. At that time I believed in Kant’s dualism, especially in his idealism. Originally I was a feudalist and an advocate of bourgeois democracy."''</small></ref> | ||
Following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the Communist Party of China was taken over by an explicitly capitalist faction under [[Deng Xiaoping]], which would formalize both Mao and Deng | Following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the Communist Party of China was taken over by an explicitly capitalist faction under [[Deng Xiaoping]], which would formalize the revisions and inventions of both Mao and Deng under a new [[Social-chauvinism|chauvinistic]] theory known as [[Socialism with Chinese Characteristics]]. | ||
== Further reading == | == Further reading == | ||
Latest revision as of 23:29, 8 September 2024
Chinese revisionism encompasses the bourgeois theoretical and political deviations of the revisionist Communist Party of China and other movements within the People's Republic of China and its predecessor states. Revisionists in China rose to power during the bourgeois democratic revolution led by Mao Zedong and the formation of modern China in 1949, and revisionist governance continues to this day under Xi Jinping. The prototypical ideology of this revisionist movement was Mao Zedong Thought (later Maoism), a collection of eclectic inventions and adoptions from sources including Confucianism, liberal idealism, etc. with only subtle influences from Marxism and revolutionary communism.[1]
Following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the Communist Party of China was taken over by an explicitly capitalist faction under Deng Xiaoping, which would formalize the revisions and inventions of both Mao and Deng under a new chauvinistic theory known as Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
Further reading
- Against Dengism (2021), by the Red Spectre
- Against Maoism, Part One, The progenitor of Maoism — Mao Zedong Thought (2024), by the Red Spectre
See also
References
- ↑ Mao Zedong (1964). Talk On Questions Of Philosophy. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.
“To get some experience of class struggle — that’s what I call a university. They argue about which university is better, Peking University or People’s University. For my part I am a graduate of the university of the greenwoods, I learned a bit there. In the past I studied Confucius, and spent six years on the Four Books and the Five Classics. I learned to recite them from memory, but I did not understand them. At that time, I believed deeply in Confucius, and even wrote essays [expounding his ideas]. Later I went to a bourgeois school for seven years. Seven plus six makes thirteen years. I studied all the usual bourgeois stuff — natural science and social science. They also taught some pedagogy. This includes five years of normal school, two years of middle school, and also the time I spent in the library. At that time I believed in Kant’s dualism, especially in his idealism. Originally I was a feudalist and an advocate of bourgeois democracy."