Mao Tse-tung Thought, the Last Struggle for Succession, and the Post-Mao Era

1 September 1977

journal article
recent political-issues
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly

Vol. 71, 498-527
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000011863

Abstract

In a letter to Joseph Bloch, dated 21–22 September 1890, Friedrich Engels wrote: “[W]e make our history ourselves, but in the first place, under very definite assumptions and conditions. Among these the economic ones areultimately decisive. But the political ones, etc., and indeed, even the traditions which haunt human minds also play a part, although not the decisive one.” The phrase, “the political ones, etc.,” refers to the superstructure and the forms of social consciousness of a society as distinguished from its economic base or the mode of production.

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