Mao Zedong's Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response

Marx and Engels had their utopian visions of a classless society and the withering away of the state, and so did Mao Zedong. But Mao’s utopianism was different, in that it was embedded in the Chinese tradition, eschewed economic problems, was motivated by a subjectivist philosophy, and called for voluntarist action.