The History of the Left - Part I

Left wing in the west and east returned to revolutionary politics. They were no longer trying to seize control of the economy, or even the state machine but to ceize control of the culture. This is paralleled in china with the understanding that it didn't matter that the power of the communist party would not be reduced if they allowed capitalism to flourish. So there is some parallel in this, between the two. The otherthing about china, i spent a long time visiting china in the first decade of the century, and it's a planet, not a country. It's enormous. And you can see that te they are terribly worried, in piqueing about how to control