Rethinking Socialism book review
Channel: Jose Maria Sison
Date: 07/11/2020

SOCIALISM AND CAPITALIST RESTORATION IN CHINA
Book Review of Rethinking Socialism by  Deng-Yuan Hsu and Pao-Yu Ching
By Jose Maria Sison
November 7, 2020

 Dear Comrades and friends,

I convey warmest greetings to all participants in this book launch. I thank the  East and Southeast Asian Studies section of the University of the Philippines-Center for International Studies for inviting me to do a review of Rethinking Socialism by  Deng-Yuan Hsu and Pao-Yu Ching. 

I agree with  Prof. Ching in her introduction of the 2017 edition of this book that socialism in China did not fail because of inherent invalidity in theoretical and practical terms but because it was  defeated in a two-line class struggle between the socialist line of Comrade Mao and the bourgeois line of the capitalist roaders headed by Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. 

The book provides important facts, insights and analysis regarding this struggle.  The main concern of the book is about the conflicting socialist and capitalist projects but it also relates the economic issues to the political and cultural issues.