At 09:09 PM 4/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>There is a book reviewed in the 12/97 "Monthly Review" by Bruce Cumings.
The book
>is writtne by Maurice Meisner and is titled "The Deng Xiaoping Era: An
Inquiry
>into the Fate of Chinese Socialism." Cumings gives it a rave review. Has
anyone
>on the list read it? It sounds like it has a lot to say about Mao and the
>Cultural Revolution.
>
>Michael yates
>
Meisner's book is first-rate. As far as I know, it is one of the only
Marxist appreciations--as opposed to a Maoist hagiography--of Mao and his
successors. I strongly urge it for anybody who has even a cursory interest
in China.
Louis Proyect
