ABSTRACT
By the middle of the last decade of the twentieth century, much of the substance of Marxism, in the form that it had reached China, had been swept away. On the Chinese mainland, “Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought” was more honored in the breach than in the observance. The economic system of mainland China had assumed more and more of the features of that which had marshaled the energies of the people of the Republic of China on Taiwan and guided them from more or less traditional agrarianism to full industrial maturity. In large part, Maoist economic policies had been abandoned in the People’s Republic of China.
