China takes a new look at Marxism

SINOGRAPH : China takes a new look at Marxism

Beijing is actively promoting that the Communist Party should build a "study model of Marxism". Coupled with the visit by a senior party official to Taiwan to discuss - for the first time ever - political models, the signs are clear that China is reforming its own system. - Francesco Sisci

Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.

Slavoj Žižek · Post-Wall

"...maybe post-Communist disappointment should not be dismissed as a sign of ‘immature’ expectations. When people protested against Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, most of them weren’t asking for capitalism. They wanted solidarity and a rough kind of justice; they wanted the freedom to live their own lives outside state control, to come together and talk as they pleased; they wanted to be liberated from primitive ideological indoctrination and hypocrisy. In effect they aspired to something that could best be described as ‘socialism with a human face’. Perhaps this sentiment deserves a second chance."

LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Post-Wall