Schlagwort: Deng Xiaoping

  • Lynn Walsh: Deng draws the line at democracy.

    [Militant No. 834, 13 February 1987, p. 10] When China’s student protestors put up posters demanding democracy, they signed them with pseudonyms. They remembered that the last big wave of student and youth protest, the Democratic Movement of 1978-79, was suppressed, and over 200 of its leaders jailed. By Lynn Walsh But one of the…

  • Lynn Walsh: China – Behind the new Image

    [Militant No. 819, 17 October 1986, p. 10] The Queen’s visit to China symbolises a profound change in the capitalists‘ attitude. Before, the media painted a picture of a regimented population, political thought-control, and unrelenting ‚Communist‘ austerity. Now they present a new China, enlivened by a blossoming market, with political ‚liberalisation‘ and a rapid adoption…

  • Lynn Walsh China: On the road to capitalism?

    [Militant No. 820, 24 October 1986 p. 10] Do the current reforms raise the spectre of capitalist restoration? Even Reagan now refers to Deng’s group as ’so-called Communists‘, perhaps believing that they have seen the light. Those who argue this, whether eager capitalists or apprehensive socialists, greatly exaggerate the scope of the reforms. They are…

  • Lynn Walsh: Dengs Aufstieg an die Macht

    [Eigene Übersetzung des Artikels in „Militant“, 17. Oktober 1986, nachgedruckt in der Broschüre „China. The Tradition of Struggle“, Juni 1989, S. 27] Die Kulturrevolution begann im Wesentlichen als eine von Mao eingeleitete Säuberungsaktion gegen Spitzenpolitiker*innen wie Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping und die Gruppe, die den Apparat zu dieser Zeit beherrschte. Sie hatten Mao nach dem…

  • Lynn Walsh: Deng’s Rise to Power

    [Published in Militant, 17 October 1986, abbreviated reprint in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 27] The Cultural Revolution began essentially as a purge launched by Mao against top leaders like Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and the group which dominated the apparatus at that time. They had excluded Mao from direct…