Download or read book Chinese Marxism in Flux 1978-84 written by Bill Brugger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1985, considers the state of Marxist thought in China at the time, a time when the country’s leadership appeared more concerned with attaining modernisation and economic development than Marxist theory. It considers the problems that Chinese Marxist intellectuals were facing and relates them to the actions of the political leadership. The Gang of Four, their ‘utopianism’ and ‘dogmatism’ had been denounced and this book argues that rather than being in retreat, Chinese Marxism was in fact enjoying a productive period.