Overview
The Communist Road to Capitalism explores how a dynamic of social struggles from below followed by countermeasures of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has pushed the historical evolution of the Peopleās Republic of China (PRC) since 1949.
Under socialism until the mid-1970s, during the ensuing transition until the mid-1990s, and in the capitalist period since, the CCP regime responded to the struggles of workers, peasants, migrants, and women* with a mix of repression, concession, cooptation, and reform. Ralf Ruckus shows that this dynamic took the country into a new phase each timeāand eventually all the way from socialism to capitalism: in the 1950s, labor struggles and the Hundred Flowers Movement were followed by the regimeās Great Leap Forward; in the 1960s, the Cultural Revolution led to the CCPās failed attempt to revitalize socialism; in the 1970s, social unrest and movements for a democratic socialism made room for the regimeās Reform and Opening policies; in the late 1980s, the Tianāanmen Square uprising triggered more radical reforms; in the 1990s, peasant and state worker unrest could not stop the capitalist restructuring; and in the 2000s, migrant worker struggles led to concessions, tightened repression, and the regimeās global capitalist expansion strategy in the 2010s.
The Communist Road to Capitalism breaks with established orthodoxies about the PRCās socialist āsuccessesā and myths on its later rise as an economic power. It combines a historiography of workersā, peasantsā, migrantsā, and women*ās struggles with a searing critique of exploitation, authoritarian state power and gender discrimination under socialism and capitalism. Drawing lessons from PRC history, Ralf Ruckus finally outlines political aims and methods for the left that avoid past mistakes and allow to fight on for a society free of all forms of exploitation and oppression.
This book title, The Communist Road to Capitalism (How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China's (R)evolution since 1949), ISBN: 9781629638379, by Ralf Ruckus, published by PM Press (July 27, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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