ABSTRACT
Dwelling on the history of China, Comrade Mao Tse-tung always attention to its characteristics: economic and social life was stagnant for several thousand years. The social progress brought about by the struggle of the people had not fundamentally changed the feudal economic relations and the feudal political system. Cultural core — the constellation of features which are most closely related to subsistence activities and economic arrangements. The core includes such social, political and religious patterns as are empirically determined to be closely connected with these arrangements. A subsequent itemization of such core-diagnostic features includes economic, social, political, military, technological, religious and esthetic patterns: the clearcut techno-environmentally based complex which was first taken as core is now replaced by all of culture. According to Maoism the major contradictions facing the Chinese revolution are those between the political will of the masses and the reactionary values and expectations of the remnants of the old "semi-feudal, semi-colonial" ideology.
