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out either that ‘the masses’ will seek a restoration of their own

unique form of class power. For the party is now lined up against

them and is plainly prepared to use its monopoly of violence to

quell dissent, throw peasants o

ff the land, and suppress the rising

demands not only for democratization but also for a modicum of

distributive justice. China, we may conclude, has de

finitely moved

towards neoliberalization and the reconstitution of class power,

albeit ‘with distinctly Chinese characteristics’. The authoritarian-

ism, the appeal to nationalism, and the revival of certain strains of

imperialism suggest, however, that China may be moving, though

from a quite di

fferent direction, towards a confluence with the

neoconservative tide now running strongly in the US. That does

not bode well for the future.

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