IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

More than a grand puppeteer

· Socialist Challenge No. 44, 4 May 1978 · pp. 15-16 of the scan · 371 words

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In a generally angry book, Leys reserves his most witherine cobrempr for those foreiga politicians in or out of office, financiers, industrialists, parlour revoluworsnippers and various HNEERTATLALC with Maoist authority and power preventsthem from secing the genuine ferment which COANAUES IENLEAOUELHRESC AAEL. albeit now agains. the Maoist political Asaleading specialis in Chinese art LETS the Maoists WHEL EE ABUD DEACA CULUrS Lfe. *What an influence contemporary Linscould hareon world callure. he doclares, "if ouly its potential for Zande talem oould be frecly and fully employed. dissolved China isto chaos, in ar experiment unique in the history ol established goveroments (although he wassbrewd enoughtokeepthearmysn the wings).

What he failed ro see was that a more complex society had sprung from the revalution he had led to power, with aspirationsofitsowntowards socialist CCUDSCTEY Disappointed and alarmed, Mao had to retreat, to compromise on bis ambitious reform programuoe and to repress the wayward Red Guards, But the irony remains that this old-style despot, who saw nothing untoward in being officially photographed with a political handbook of the imperial mandarinate, The Universul Mirror of History as a Reference Book for Rulers. at bis cibow, delsberulely created openings through which these new, anti-hureaucratic faroes could Fow.

GREGOR BENTON Pannckock and Gorler's Mursism Ed. D.A. Smart Pluta 12.95 T HIS volene is a welcome laddicion to Che growing muimber of writings available English by currents which existed in the carly rearsof the Communist Inlemnational For that reason, and because many o organisation must be derived troms the econonic system (p 155 and p 158).

The concept bourpoois state isn't even mentioned and bo organisational consequences are organisatonal conclusions are tberefore that chiefly co-ordinating and linking the wotkers, and workers (pl67-169). soviets ultra ledt party disappears Gorter's formula is interesting as a precursor of the 'three cogs" theory o Tony Ciff (garly/ranl

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