I’d only add that in addition to these social and economic reforms, the political effect of the revolution was to unify the nation and allow it to develop independently against the imperialist powers which had previously subjugated it. The powerful Chinese state spawned by the revolution was, as we know, instrumental in shielding the country from the 1998 and 2008 financial crises, notwithstanding that the state has been in relative decline since the encouragement of a revived private sector by Deng and his successors.
> On Feb 26, 2016, at 4:17 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anthony Costa wrote: >> > The continuity lies in China having solved the basic problems of > education, health, inequality (land reforms), and relative gender > equality in these. Deng Xiaoping's policies may have been a break from > auturky and small scale production but he could not have moved forward > had those earlier accomplishments not existed. > < > > Yes, the later writing of William Hinton also attests to the solution of > those problems, plus the tremendous construction done before and during > the Cultural Revolution: terraced land, irrigation works and other water > management facilities in the countryside; the first large steel, > oilfield and other industrial plants; and more. The Deng group seized > these achievements and fed them into capitalist relations of production, > proceeding with both pragmatism and caution in contrast to the bluster > of Khrushchev and the lurch to open oligarchy by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
