Socialism with Chinese characteristics : a guide for foreigners / / Roland Boer

• Autore: Boer Roland
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 pages)
• Disciplina: 335.4345
• Soggetto topico: Socialism - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Economic conditions 2000-
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Reference -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction: Marxism as China's Special Skill -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Marxism as China's Special Skill -- 1.2.1 Defining Marxist Philosophy -- 1.2.2 Philosophy and the Social Sciences -- 1.2.3 The General Secretary as a Thinker -- 1.3 Chinese Characteristics -- 1.4 Historical Nihilism -- 1.4.1 Typology of Western Genres -- 1.4.2 Using Western Categories to Understand China (yixi jiezhong) -- 1.5 Method -- 1.6 A Note on Sources -- References -- 2 Reading Deng Xiaoping -- 2.1 Liberating Thought (jiefang sixiang) -- 2.1.1 Liberation From -- 2.1.2 Liberation For -- 2.2 Seek Truth from Facts (shishiqiushi) -- 2.3 Liberating the Forces of Production (jiefang shengchanli) -- 2.4 Conclusion: Laying the Foundations for Communism -- References -- 3 Contradiction Analysis: History, Meaning, and Application -- 3.1 Opening Remarks -- 3.2 Lenin -- 3.3 Dialectical Materialism -- 3.4 Mao Zedong -- 3.4.1 Contradiction and Antagonism -- 3.4.2 Principal and Secondary Contradictions -- 3.4.3 Chinese Characteristics -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Marxist Basis of the Reform and Opening-Up -- 4.1 Opening Remarks -- 4.2 One Big Pot and Household Responsibility -- 4.2.1 Returning to the Countryside -- 4.2.2 Collective and Individual -- 4.2.3 Equality and Difference -- 4.3 Reform -- 4.3.1 Deepening Reform -- 4.3.2 Revolution and Reform -- 4.3.3 The Wild 90s -- 4.4 Opening up -- 4.4.1 How to Relate to Capitalist Countries -- 4.4.2 Self-Reliance and Globalisation -- 4.5 Class Analysis -- 4.5.1 Internal Class Contradictions -- 4.5.2 International Class Antagonisms -- 4.6 One Country, Two Systems -- 4.7 Conclusion: One Central Task and Two Basic Points -- 4.7.1 Reform and Opening-Up -- 4.7.2 Four Cardinal Principles -- 4.7.3 Both Hands Should Be Hard -- References. ; 5 China's Socialist Market Economy and Planned Economy -- 5.1 Opening Remarks -- 5.2 De-Linking: Planning and the Market -- 5.2.1 Deng Xiaoping and the Socialist Market Economy -- 5.2.2 Market Economies in History -- 5.3 Contradiction Analysis -- 5.3.1 From Ownership to Liberating the Forces of Production -- 5.3.2 Primary Contradiction -- 5.4 Is It Socialist? Universality and Particularity -- 5.4.1 Universality and Particularity -- 5.4.2 What Makes It Socialist? -- 5.4.3 A Basis in Marx and Engels -- 5.5 Dialectical Transcendence: Beyond Planning and Market Economies -- 5.5.1 From Temporal Narratives to Managing the Contradiction -- 5.5.2 Dialectical Transcendence -- 5.6 Conclusion and Implications -- References -- 6 Seeking a Xiaokang Society, or, Socialist Modernisation -- 6.1 Opening Remarks -- 6.2 The Four Modernisations -- 6.3 Datong: From the Confucian Tradition to Mao Zedong -- 6.3.1 The Book of Rites (Liji) -- 6.3.2 He Xiu's Revision: Datong as Topos -- 6.3.3 Kang Youwei's Confucian Reformism -- 6.3.4 Mao Zedong: Datong and Communism -- 6.4 Xiaokang: From the Book of Songs (Shijing) to Xi Jinping -- 6.4.1 The Book of Rites and the Book of Songs (Shijing) -- 6.4.2 Deng Xiaoping and Xiaokang Shehui -- 6.4.3 The Two Centenary Goals -- 6.5 Whither Datong? -- References -- 7 The Chinese Marxist Approach to Sovereignty and Human Rights -- 7.1 Opening Remarks -- 7.2 On Universals, False and Rooted -- 7.2.1 False Universals -- 7.2.2 Rooted Universals -- 7.3 The Western Liberal Tradition of Human Rights -- 7.4 Sovereignty: From Westphalia to Anti-colonialism -- 7.4.1 Westphalia and Secularised Theology -- 7.4.2 Anti-colonial Sovereignty -- 7.4.3 Anti-hegemony, Non-interference, and Peaceful Coexistence -- 7.5 The Chinese Marxist Approach to Human Rights -- 7.5.1 The Prerequisite of Anti-hegemonic Sovereignty. ; 7.5.2 The Right to Socio-Economic Well-Being -- 7.5.3 Policy Implications: From the Belt and Road Initiative to Minority Nationalities -- 7.5.4 The Rooted Universal of Chinese Marxist Human Rights -- 7.6 Conclusion: Mutual Recognition in a Multi-polar World -- References -- 8 Socialist Democracy in Practice -- 8.1 Opening Remarks -- 8.2 Electoral Democracy and the People's Congresses -- 8.3 Consultative Democracy -- 8.3.1 Philosophical and Historical Foundations: Non-Antagonistic Contradictions and the Mass Line -- 8.3.2 Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferences -- 8.3.3 Comprehensive Consultation and Democratic Supervision -- 8.4 Grassroots Democracy -- 8.4.1 History: From Engels to Pre-Liberation Red Areas -- 8.4.2 Two Case Studies: Miaoba and Dengzhou -- 8.4.3 Improving Targeted Grassroots Democracy -- 8.5 Minority Nationalities -- 8.5.1 Defining 'Minzu' -- 8.5.2 Preferential Policies (youhui zhengce): Economics, Culture, and Governance -- 8.5.3 Autonomy and Unity -- 8.6 Rule of Law -- 8.6.1 Legal System and Rule of Law -- 8.6.2 Rule of Law and Rule of Virtue -- 8.6.3 Rule of Law Versus Rule of a Person -- 8.6.4 Governing the Country According to Law -- 8.7 Leadership of the Communist Party -- 8.7.1 From Historical to Practical Legitimacy -- 8.7.2 The Statutory Procedures of Practical Legitimacy -- 8.7.3 The Mutual Strength of Communist Party Leadership and Socialist Democracy -- 8.8 Conclusion: The Superiority of a Work in Progress -- References -- 9 Socialist Democracy in Theory -- 9.1 Opening Remarks -- 9.1.1 Historical Forms of Democracy -- 9.2 Engels and Marx -- 9.2.1 Equating the Paris Commune with the Dictatorship of the Proletariat -- 9.2.2 The Seeds of Democratic Centralism -- 9.2.3 Principles of Socialist Democracy -- 9.3 Lenin and the 'Highest Form of Democracy' -- 9.3.1 Three Meanings of Democracy. ; 9.3.2 The Superiority of Socialist Democracy -- 9.3.3 Democratic Centralism -- 9.4 Stalin and the Leadership of the Communist Party -- 9.4.1 Organic Leadership of the Communist Party -- 9.4.2 Proactive Human Rights Based on Freedom from Economic Exploitation -- 9.5 Mao Zedong -- 9.5.1 New Democracy -- 9.5.2 Democratic Dictatorship -- 9.5.3 Democratic Centralism -- 9.6 From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping: The Problem of Democratic Centralism -- 9.6.1 Inner-Party Democratic Centralism -- 9.6.2 Separation of Party and Government -- 9.6.3 The Statutory Procedures of Socialist Democracy -- 9.6.4 Xi Jinping: Democratic Centralism and Country-Wide Governance -- 9.7 Conclusion: Stability and Social Health -- 9.7.1 Why Not Social Democracy? -- 9.7.2 Stability and Social Health -- References -- 10 Xi Jinping on Marx and Engels -- 10.1 Setting the Scene: Why Xi Jinping's Thought is Important -- 10.2 The Biography of an Engaged Intellectual -- 10.3 Marxism in China -- 10.3.1 Scientific Socialism -- 10.3.2 Marxism and Anti-colonial Struggles -- 10.4 Study Marx -- 10.4.1 Development of Human Society (renlei shehui fazhan) -- 10.4.2 Sticking to the People's Standpoint (jianshou renmin lichang) -- 10.4.3 Productive Forces and Relations of Production (shengchanli he shengchan guanxi) -- 10.4.4 People's Democracy (renmin minzhu) -- 10.4.5 Cultural Construction (wenhua jianshe) -- 10.4.6 Social Construction (shehui jianshe) -- 10.4.7 Human-Nature Relationship (ren yu ziran guanxi) -- 10.4.8 World History (shijie lishi) -- 10.4.9 Marxist Party Building (makesizhuyi zhengdang jianshe) -- 10.5 Conclusion: An Original Contribution to the Development of Marxism -- References -- 11 Conclusion: On the Socialist System and Cultural Confidence -- 11.1 A Guide for Foreigners -- 11.2 Socialist System -- 11.3 Cultural Confidence -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
• ISBN: 981-16-1622-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910483659603321
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