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Mao Zedong thought / by Wang Fanxi ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Gregor Benton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: enh Series: Historical materialism book seriesPublication details: Leiden: Brill, 2020Description: viii, 326 pagesISBN:
  • 9789004358904
Uniform titles:
  • Mao Zedong si xiang lun gao.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05092 23 FAN.M
Other classification:
Summary: "Wang Fanxi, a leader of the Chinese Trotskyists, wrote this book on Mao more than fifty years ago. He did so while in exile in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, across the water from Hong Kong, where he had been sent in 1949 to represent his comrades in China, soon to disappear for decades into Mao's jails. The book is an analytical study whose strength lies less in describing Mao's life than in explaining Maoism and setting out a radical view on it as a political movement and a current of thought within the Marxist tradition to which both Wang and Mao belonged. With its clear and provoking thesis, it has, since its writing, stood the test of time far better than the hundreds of descriptive studies that have in the meantime come and gone"--
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Reference Reference International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research General Stacks International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research 951.05092 FAN.M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan CMS2953

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307) and index.

"Wang Fanxi, a leader of the Chinese Trotskyists, wrote this book on Mao more than fifty years ago. He did so while in exile in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, across the water from Hong Kong, where he had been sent in 1949 to represent his comrades in China, soon to disappear for decades into Mao's jails. The book is an analytical study whose strength lies less in describing Mao's life than in explaining Maoism and setting out a radical view on it as a political movement and a current of thought within the Marxist tradition to which both Wang and Mao belonged. With its clear and provoking thesis, it has, since its writing, stood the test of time far better than the hundreds of descriptive studies that have in the meantime come and gone"--

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