Why Communism Failed: 共產主義為什麽失敗

by Jasper Becker

本書作者著有一部関於毛時代中國大飢荒的權威著作。在這部新著中，作者深入分析了遍及全球的共産主義經濟的基本現象。共産主義被摧毁並非來自外部，而是來自内部，其原因是共産主義經濟理論在實踐中一直行不通。本书回答了一個重大問題：是什麽導致了蘇聨、中國和其他共産主義的衰落？

Genres: Politics, History

307 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2022

About the author

Jasper Becker is a British journalist who spent 30 years covering Asia including 18 years living in Beijing. His reporting on uprisings, refugees and famine in China, Tibet and North Korea garnered him many awards and he is a popular speaker and commentator on current events in Asia. He now lives in England and has just finished his tenth book, tentatively called The Fatal Flaw. Earlier books such as Travels in an Untamed Land, Hungry Ghosts or Rogue Regime had described the devastating impact of Communism on the peoples of Mongolia, China and North Korea. In City of Heavenly Tranquility, he laments the destruction of old Peking and the building of the new Beijing while The Chinese and Dragon Rising set out to portray the different sides of contemporary China. In Hungry Ghosts, the author had exposed for the first time the true madness and horrors of Mao’s secret famine during the Great Leap Forward. The new work digs into the flawed economic theories which lay behind Communism’s collapse and describes the economic theorists who got it right and the Western economists who believed the bogus statistics put out by Moscow and Beijing. He has also researched family histories of the early Shanghai capitalists who became textile magnates in Hong Kong. Under the pen name Jack MacLean, he has published an engrossing thriller set amid the drone wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan called Global Predator. Four of his earlier books on Asia have just been updated and re-released as kindle books.

Reviews

[Liam McMahon · Rating 4 out of 5]

dw comrades im all read up, won’t happen again

[Klaus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Both of my parents were born to a communist state. So were their parents. This being said, I was much luckier and I was born to a country which was already undergoing transition to a liberal-democratic capitalism. As a result, I just lack any kind of experiences which could make connecting with my history intuitively understandable.

Luckily, there are well researched books that help me do it. This book helped me to further connect to my culture and history. Keep up the good work!