The Chinese communists ideological dilemmas

In: Issues & studies: a social science quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian affairs, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 14-26

Abstract

The evolution of the Chinese Communist Party's ideology since 1949 can be divided into two major stages, with Mao's death in September 1976 as the dividing line. Before his death, his 'thought' was upheld as Marxist orthodoxy in China, which repudiated all kinds of 'Rightist' ideologies that were later 'revisionist'. It was under the pretext of 'opposing and preventing revisionism' that Mao launched the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) to purge his political opponents within the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy. Since Mao's death, the 'ideological question' withhin the hierarchy has become more diversified and complicated. Ideological dilemmas faced by it in the post-Mao period are discussed. (DÜI-Sen)