Serving the People and Continuing the Revolution

1 October 1972

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly

Vol. 52, 620-653
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000048128

Abstract

Western social scientists have tended to evade a central issue of the Chinese Revolution. As a consequence, our scholarship has generally misconceived and denigrated the Chinese Communist concepts and practices of mass participation. The issue evaded is twentieth-century China's need for a continuing vanguard to direct the revolutionary change that China's conditions demand. One result of that evasion has been the near-unanimous decrying of China's restrictions on democratic control, restrictions that, of course, are implicit in the very concept of a vanguard.

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