The transformation of China 中國的演變 Xiang Qing (向青) 18th January 2003 Since the later half of the l990’s, despite the political and economic situation of China has been conspicuously different from that of the USSR and Eastern Europe, capitalist restoration has also occurred in China as the case in the latter countries. The CCP, having overthrown the KMT regime and founded the PRC, had, since the middle of the l950’s, always claimed the Chinese state a socialist state or a state of proletarian dictatorship. However, not only that socialism was far from being materialized, the Chinese working class itself had never once held power. The Chinese working masses had never even enjoyed the political liberty enjoyed by workers in capitalist democratic countries. Revolutionary Marxists (Trotskyists) recognized the then China as a bureaucratically deformed workers’ state, just on the ground that the CCP bureaucratic regime have liquidated the landlord class and the bourgeoisie, and establish...
中大新左學社創立旨在提供討論與學術平台予中大學生交流理論,反思自上世紀六十年代(Long Sixties)激進運動以來的國際新左思潮,以及其於世界各地與香港本地的實踐。作為理論社團,我們將定期出版文章與刊物,邀請各地學者分享交流,並舉行讀書會、研討小組及其他活動。 我們時代的新浪潮蓄勢待發,新左學社尋找自身的歷史使命。為此,我們必須冷靜認知歷史現實、追求「真實的烏托邦」,擺脫當下的既定現實框架,解放可能性,唯有如此,我們化作想象與已知希望 (begriffene Hoffnung)的存在。——這也代表,每一個新時代的左翼都不可能絕望。 New Left Society, CUHK aims to provide a platform for academic discussion for CUHK students to explore New Left theories. we publish essays and journals, invite scholars from all over the world to discuss and share thoughts.