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Dos revoluciones comunistas en el siglo XX: Rusia y China

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La comparación de las dos revoluciones comunistas del largo siglo XX es, pues, un ejercicio intelectual fascinante y un objeto de análisis teórico de gran envergadura y relevancia políticas, porque en estas experiencias histórico-estructurales, los enormes dilemas que el capitalismo histórico había planteado a las sociedades humanas en los albores de nuestra época fueron objeto de una gigantesca experiencia colectiva, que dotó de mayor espesor y complejidad a las posibles sendas de constitución política de las grandes masas secularmente desposeídas.

A primeros del año 2010, Perry Anderson publicó a modo de borrador, un artículo en el que comparaba las Revoluciones Rusa y China. Cinco años después, Wang Chaohua aporta un veredicto crítico sobre los resultados y las consecuencias del utopismo de Mao y el pragmatismo de Deng así como el amargo legado que dejó el aplastamiento de las aspiraciones
populares en 1989.

Perry Anderson, miembro del comité editorial de la nlr; entre sus últimos libros The Indian Ideology (2012) y American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers (2015).

Wang Chaohua, tambien miembro del comité editorial de la nlr es además ensayista e investigadora, licenciada en literatura moderna china por la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles. Además es la editora del libro One China, Many Paths, a collection of essays by contemporary Chinese intellectuals, 2003. Participó activamente en el movimiento estudiantil en la primavera de 1989 durante las protestas dela plaza de Tiananmen. Tuvo que huir a Estados Unidos de América al figurar en la lista de los ventiún líderes estudantiles mas buscados por el gobierno chino.

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

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Perry Anderson

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Perry Anderson is an English Marxist intellectual and historian. He is Professor of History and Sociology at UCLA and an editor of the New Left Review. He is the brother of historian Benedict Anderson.

He was an influence on the New Left. He bore the brunt of the disapproval of E.P. Thompson in the latter's The Poverty of Theory, in a controversy during the late 1970s over the scientific Marxism of Louis Althusser, and the use of history and theory in the politics of the Left. In the mid-1960s, Thompson wrote an essay for the annual Socialist Register that rejected Anderson's view of aristocratic dominance of Britain's historical trajectory, as well as Anderson's seeming preference for continental European theorists over radical British traditions and empiricism. Anderson delivered two responses to Thompson's polemics, first in an essay in New Left Review (January-February 1966) called "Socialism and Pseudo-Empiricism" and then in a more conciliatory yet ambitious overview, Arguments within English Marxism (1980).

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August 10, 2022
a thoughtful, insightful and clear discussion of the structural differences between the Russian and Chinese revolutions, and the consequences this entails. Obviously now outdated yet the commentary on China's direction remains relevant. Anderson also somehow manages to avoid falling into Stalinist, Khrushchevite, Dengist or liberal delusions, which was very refreshing.
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