Post-Mao China replaced Marxist legitimacy with performance and nationalist legitimacy
Evidence
Total Westernization was no more practical at the end of the twentieth century than it had been at the end of the nineteenth century. The leadership instead chose a new version of Ti-Yong: capitalism and involvement in the world economy, on the one hand, combined with political authoritarianism and recommitment to traditional Chinese culture, on the other. In place of the revolutionary legitimacy of Marxist-Leninism, the regime substituted performance legitimacy provided by surging economic development and nationalist legitimacy provided by invocation of the distinctive characteristics of Chinese culture. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 287 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: China’s pervasive social distrust stems from totalitarian destruction of traditional affiliations — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1240; China’s post-reform regime rests on performance and nationalist legitimacy, not ideology — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 287; Post-Tiananmen Chinese nationalism frames both democracy and Leninism as foreign impositions — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 287 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- China’s post-reform regime rests on performance and nationalist legitimacy, not ideology
#corroborates(0.98) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 287 - Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them
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