Marxism in the Chinese Revolution

Written by noted historian Arif Dirlik over a period of three decades, the essays in this collection offer a record both of developments in Chinese socialism (excluding anarchism) and of the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution throughout these years. The book’s historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its global relevance while avoiding dogmatic and Eurocentric limitations on it. The essays reaffirm the centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history and the fundamental importance of Marxism to grasping problems of capitalist modernity and the socialist reaction to it that was unable in the end to transcend the social and ideological horizons of capitalism.