The Cultural Revolution has generated much speculation and controversy. But few were those who in the West, as well as among the Marxists, managed to understand something of its true character and its consequences. This general perplexity reveals how great the difficulties in understanding China are. We will try to analyze the main difficulties, which are those generated by the Western vision (determined by four factors: isolation, ignorance, sense of superiority and different stages in the process of social organization) and by the stagnation of Marxism, which is not due to limitations inherent to its methodology but to the non-application or misuse of the dialectical method.
Keywords:
Cultural Revolution, China, Communism, Marxism, Marxist Theory
Author Biography
Vania Bambirra
Es profesora de sociología e investigadora del Centro de Estudios Socio-Económicos de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Chile.
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