After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states
remain today: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Belarus and Venezuela can …

What alternatives are available to China in the next one or two decades?'More of the same'is
not a likely scenario, because one-party rule is not optimal for coping with the challenges of …

China has been called a “post-Communist society”. Marxism and the other dominant thought
forms on which the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) came to power, and exercised that …

As China moved from a planned to a market economy many people expected that China's
political system would similarly move from authoritarianism to democracy. It is now clear …

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faces a daunting dilemma: how to preserve the
Leninist nature of the political system while presiding over the privatization of the economy. It …

Some hold that the reason China does not have democracy is because its traditional
political culture forms an insuperable barrier to the establishment of democratic institutions …

I would dearly like to affirm that China will be a fully democratic state in ten years' time, but in
all honesty I see that possibility as very small. What I do believe is that the next ten years will …

Since the launch of the reforms in 1979, most striking has been China's tremendous ability to
adapt to—and therefore to resist—the Communist Party, its leadership and its nomenklatura …

To friends and comrades, and all who hate imperialism and want revolution, and who
believe that Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism must and can become a much more capable …

Faced with an overall crisis in China since the early 20th century, the Communist Party of
China has pursued a Party-centric path to modernising the country, thus delivering its …