The Party as a Utopia: Communist Identity after Stalinism

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The Communist Party of China and Ideology

Populist Authoritarianism: The Future of the Chinese Communist Party

The conventional wisdom on China's domestic political situation is one of tension and turmoil. China's leaders seem beset with a host of problems for which they have no ready answer. They face a growing number of popular protests in the cities and the countryside. Corruption seems to be endemic, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lacks the means or the will to crackdown on corrupt officials,...

THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF RUSSIA: Rural Support and Implications for the Party Syste m

The Global Brain as a New Utopia

Utopias seem to be out of fashion these days. The old ideologies, such as communism, have shown their inadequacies, and the “laissez-faire” liberalism that has replaced them is coming under more and more criticism. Instead, the intellectual climate has turned to either gloom and doom, or an “anything goes” postmodernist relativism. This general pessimism and apathy is fed by an increasing amoun...