Marxism, Liberalism, Feminism: Law & China

Want to understand the People's Republic of CHINA? Then figure out their Ideology. This book explains Marx's origins in the thinking of Rousseau, Locke, Hobbes and presents ideas about how further legal reform in China may occur. This work presents a broad overview of Marx's theory on the state and the influences Marxist theory has had on legal thought. Marxism was the largest and most far-reaching attempt at fundamental systemic reform the world has ever seen, governing at one point at least one-quarter of the entire planet. I started my studies of Marxism from the perspective of the cold war: all I knew about Marxism was that it was a global ideology locked in a death struggle with the United States. As I grew older I became more critical and able to assess both Marxism and Capitalism on their own terms. Here I present a theoretical overview of the Marxist view of law and the state to show that Marxism was a critique from within liberal Western Values, a deviation within a historical movement. In practice, the Marxist idea of a proletarian dictatorship degenerated into dysfunction and capitalist restoration implemented by the communist party itself The US did not win the cold war. Rather, the USSR lost. Soviet (mis)management was driven by fear, leading to silence, blame-shifting, denial of responsibility, lack of initiative, and no reward, only punishment for those who dared to try to innovate. The involuted, defensive and paranoiac Soviet system which brought literacy to Russia and doubled its life Expectancy collapsed -resulting in a drop in the average Russian life expectancy What are we to make of the aftermath? How much of the hopes Marxism offered were lies or unrealistic or unattainable?