A Marxist IQ for the Peoples Republic of China and Asian Liberation Struggles by Norman Markowitz

by: Thursday 4 June 2015

 

 

 

 

Having participated in panels on the Peoples Republic of China this weekend at the Left Forum, I thought I would dedicate this month’s Marxist IQ to the struggles for Socialism and National Liberation in China and Asia  I would like to thank Gary Hicks, Duncan McFarland, David Ewing and Luo Xiaoping for their participation in two fine panels.

Norman Markowitz

  1.  The Peoples Republic of China today  is committed to

  1. Building a middle class capitalist society

  2. Advancing a “cultural revolution”

  3. Advancing a “socialist market economy”

  4. All of the Above

  1. An important difference between the Soviet and Chinese Revolutions was

  1. The leadership of a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party in the Chinese revolution

  2. A  Civil War between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces in the Chinese Revolution

  3. The central role of poor peasants in the Chinese revolution

  4. The absence of foreign interventions in the Chinese Revolution

  1. Since the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China, the Chinese Revolution has gone through a number of phases.  Which of the following was not a phase of the Chinese revolution

  1. The Great Leap Forward

  2. The New Covenant

  3. The Four Modernizations

  4. . The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

  1. In his important theoretical work, “On Contradictions,”  Mao Tse-tung emphasized

  1. The need to purge all those who deviated from the policy of the Chinese Communist Party

  2. The need to distinguish between secondary contradictions among Communists and within peoples movements and primary contradictions between the masses and the ruling class

  3. The need to turn the Communist Party of China into a support group for the Kuomintang government as the best way to fight Japanese imperialism and the Chinese Rightwing

  4. The need to support the United States  in its  “Open Door” trade policy toward China

 

  1.  Chinese aid, along with Soviet aid, were essential features in the triumph of this Asia-Pacific  revolutionary movement against some of the most devastating imperialist interventions in history

  1. The Huk movement in the Philippines

  2. The Communist Patty of Indonesia(PKI)

  3. The Vietminh and National Liberation Front(NLF) in Vietnam

  4. The workers  movement of Sri Lanka

 

Answers to last month’s Marxist  IQ

1.a

2.c

3.d

4.a

5.d

 

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  • Thanks once more to e.e.w. clay for both getting all the answers right and for his fine comments. If only we had many more people who had his very high Marxist IQ"
    Norman Markowitz

    Posted by norman markowitz, 06/13/2015 6:31pm (9 years ago)

  • 1. c
    2. c
    3. b
    4. b
    5. c

    Posted by E.E.W. Clay, 06/05/2015 5:17pm (9 years ago)

  • The communist, W.E.B. Du Bois, in his last auto-biography, wrote a very interesting and characteristically brilliant chapter 5, titled simply: China.
    The U. S. State Department had forbade Du Bois to visit friends in China-Du Bois went anyway.
    Anyway, in this chapter 5, Du Bois outlines the history of China-this land of human beings, showing both the horrid suffering and glorious promise and future of this great and old people, their humility, their bold audacity to achieve its promised greatness, to rescue this greatness from its ancient, old, sacred past.
    This land of billions is the land of human intelligence, and if humans will grow and achieve, China will grow and achieve in their "(c. )socialist market economy".

    Posted by E.E.W. Clay, 06/05/2015 1:29pm (9 years ago)

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