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Marv Gandall wrote: > Does he indicate in the text what "conventional measures" he drew on to > determine that the state is "unquestionably communist"? Not within the article but a footnote for that paragraph might help in a manner of speaking: [18] For the clearest recent analysis of the structure of the economy, see Joel Andreas, ‘Changing Colours in China’, NLR 54, Nov–Dec 2008, pp. 123–52; and of the continuities in the Party, David Shambaugh, China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, Berkeley–Los Angeles 2008, who stresses its learning abilities in the wake of the collapse of the CPSU. Shambaugh is a Brookings Institute scholar to give you an idea of the well that Anderson is drawing from. Here's something from a review of his book that will give you and idea of his approach: "Shambaugh argues that the essence of a Leninist party is its organisational penetration and domination of society, and he believes that most of the initiatives in this area occurred since 2002, and especially after 2004, i.e., in the era of Hu Jintao. Shambaugh does not explain why such organisational initiatives did not emerge under Jiang Zemin or Deng Xiaoping. Fighting corruption, for example, certainly isn’t a recent challenge." full: http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/document4755.html Shambaugh argues that the essence of a Leninist party is its organisational penetration and domination of society... Right. That's exactly the lesson I draw from "State and Revolution". ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
