The Last of the Romantics? Maoist Economic Development in Retrospect

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ID5774595
AutoresChris Bramall (autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume187
Páginas686-692
Data de publicação2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe China Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0009-4439 • E-ISSN: 1468-2648
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305741006000312
OpenAlexW2170998493
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas1

The notion that the development strategy pursued in China after 1949 had transformed the economy of the People's Republic was a staple of Western scholarship at the close of the Maoist era. Jack Gray's work of the early 1970s stood squarely within this tradition. For him, Maoism was superior to Stalinism as a transitional path to socialism because it avoided the "urban bias" inherent in the primitive socialist accumulation suggested by Preobrazhensky, practised by Stalin, and advocated for China by (inter alia) Bo Yibo and Liu Shaoqi. Instead of extracting resources from the rural sector, the late Maoist development strategy revolved around labour accumulation: the mobilization of rural labour to carry out rural industrialization, agricultural mechanization and the extension of irrigation networks

Industrialisation · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy