Marxism and China
Dixon Hoste attempts to locate a common element between Marxism and traditional Chinese ideas.
There is an old Chinese saying that we see the invisible through the visible, predicting the future by means of the past. In China’s history there have been several occasions—in the second and twelfth centuries B.C., for instance, and the seventh and fourteenth a.d.—when old and stable political ideas have received new life and energy through contact with alien techniques. On each occasion the outcome has been a burst of national activity comparable to that which is going on at present.
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