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Chapter 1. Marx on the State, Proletarian Dictatorship, and Commune -- Chapter 2. Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance -- Chapter 3. Lenin, Before and After October -- Chapter 4. The Soviet Union as a Multi-National and Anti-Colonial State -- Chapter 5. Democracy and a "Socialist State" -- Chapter 6. The "Korean Style" of Socialist Governance in the DPRK -- Chapter 7. China's Whole Process People's Democracy -- Chapter 8. The People's Will: Stability, Safety, and Harmony in Xinjiang -- Chapter 9. Governing the Country According to Law: The Case of the Hong Kong Storm -- Chapter 10. Party Building: Strengthening the Construction of a Marxist Party -- Chapter 11. Conclusion: Communism and the Common Good.

Intro -- Preface -- Reference -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction: Marxism as China's Special Skill -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Marxism as China's Special Skill -- 1.2.1 Defining Marxist Philosophy -- 1.2.2 Philosophy and the Social Sciences -- 1.2.3 The General Secretary as a Thinker -- 1.3 Chinese Characteristics -- 1.4 Historical Nihilism -- 1.4.1 Typology of Western Genres -- 1.4.2 Using Western Categories to Understand China (yixi jiezhong) -- 1.5 Method -- 1.6 A Note on Sources -- References -- 2 Reading Deng Xiaoping -- 2.1 Liberating Thought (jiefang sixiang) -- 2.1.1 Liberation From -- 2.1.2 Liberation For -- 2.2 Seek Truth from Facts (shishiqiushi) -- 2.3 Liberating the Forces of Production (jiefang shengchanli) -- 2.4 Conclusion: Laying the Foundations for Communism -- References -- 3 Contradiction Analysis: History, Meaning, and Application -- 3.1 Opening Remarks -- 3.2 Lenin -- 3.3 Dialectical Materialism -- 3.4 Mao Zedong -- 3.4.1 Contradiction and Antagonism -- 3.4.2 Principal and Secondary Contradictions -- 3.4.3 Chinese Characteristics -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Marxist Basis of the Reform and Opening-Up -- 4.1 Opening Remarks -- 4.2 One Big Pot and Household Responsibility -- 4.2.1 Returning to the Countryside -- 4.2.2 Collective and Individual -- 4.2.3 Equality and Difference -- 4.3 Reform -- 4.3.1 Deepening Reform -- 4.3.2 Revolution and Reform -- 4.3.3 The Wild 90s -- 4.4 Opening up -- 4.4.1 How to Relate to Capitalist Countries -- 4.4.2 Self-Reliance and Globalisation -- 4.5 Class Analysis -- 4.5.1 Internal Class Contradictions -- 4.5.2 International Class Antagonisms -- 4.6 One Country, Two Systems -- 4.7 Conclusion: One Central Task and Two Basic Points -- 4.7.1 Reform and Opening-Up -- 4.7.2 Four Cardinal Principles -- 4.7.3 Both Hands Should Be Hard -- References.

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Separated Public Power: On Hitherto Existing States -- Chapter 2. Socialist Gewalt and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat -- Chapter 3. Abolition or Dying Away of the State? -- Chapter 4. Towards Enmeshed Socialist Governance -- Conclusion.

"The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It argues that the key to ancient economies is with those who worked on the land rather than in intermittent and relatively weak kingdoms and empires. Drawing on sophisticated economic theory (especially the Régulation School) and textual and archaeological resources, Roland Boer makes it clear that economic "crisis" was the norm and that economics is always socially determined. He examines three economic layers: the building blocks (five institutional forms), periods of relative stability (three regimes), and the overarching mode of production. Ultimately, the most resilient of all the regimes was subsistence survival, for which the regular collapse of kingdoms and empires was a blessing rather than a curse. Students will come away with a clear understanding of the dynamics of the economy of ancient Israel. Boer's volume should become a new benchmark for future studies"--

The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukacs, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts.--Provided by publisher

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Atheism -- Chapter Two: Myth -- Chapter Three: Ambivalence -- Chapter Four: History -- Chapter Five: Kairós -- Chapter Six: Ethics -- Chapter Seven: Idols -- Conclusion: On Secularism, Transcendence and Death -- References -- Index.

Toward a theory of political myth -- Women first? : on the legacy of "primitive communism" -- The fantasy of myth -- The sacred economy -- Foreign policy and the fantasy of Israel in Australia -- Christianity, capitalism, and the fantasy of Israel in the United States -- Mythmaking for the left

Why do some of the major Marxists of the twentieth century engage extensively with theology? What is the influence on their other work? This book explores the instersections between Marxism and theology in the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek and Theodor Adorno.