Asia

This article, written in May 1965 by Ted Grant, shows how genuine Marxism was able to see the real processes going on in China and not be fooled by the words of the Chinese leaders. Then as now Marxism was a tool that allowed one to see through the fog of seemingly contradictory and incomprehensible events.

The following is the full text of an article written by Ted Grant in January 1949, as Mao’s People’s Liberation Army was scoring victories across northern China. We have republished an extract of this article in the latest edition of In Defence of Marxism, because it laid out in advance the processes which would lead to Mao’s seizure of power, and the overthrow of capitalism in China.