Groot, Gerry
Managing Transitions
The Chinese Communist Party, United Front Work, Corporatism and Hegemony
New York: Routledge, 2003, XXVII, 318
"Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPGs) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united front between the 1930s and 1990s using Antonio Gramsci's principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a 'war of position', the building of political alliances to isolate existing state powers and win consent for revolutionary rule and transform society.
Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is adjusting the united front and the MPGs to co-opt their representatives and deliberately forestall the evolution of an autonomous civil society and middle class which could challenge CCP rule. This has resulted in a new and expanding role for the united front, the MPGs and organisations representing the new interest groups. Gramsci's theories also help explain why the original MPGs are now more-or-less irrelevant and being replaced by new bodies as the connections between these organisations and their ostensible target groups are ever more tenuous and far from those required to effectively connect with China's new organic intellectuals." (From Igs, Newsletter, n. 14)
Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is adjusting the united front and the MPGs to co-opt their representatives and deliberately forestall the evolution of an autonomous civil society and middle class which could challenge CCP rule. This has resulted in a new and expanding role for the united front, the MPGs and organisations representing the new interest groups. Gramsci's theories also help explain why the original MPGs are now more-or-less irrelevant and being replaced by new bodies as the connections between these organisations and their ostensible target groups are ever more tenuous and far from those required to effectively connect with China's new organic intellectuals." (From Igs, Newsletter, n. 14)
| Lingua | eng |
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[author] Groot, Gerry |
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Studi di caso
Partito Comunista Cinese
case studies
Communist Party Chinese |
