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Is the work of political theory through dialectical materialism carried out in any kind of sustained way anywhere besides Vietnam?
Xi Jinping, for example, is obviously a Marxist and has a Marxist outlook, but he is not a theoretician. He is motivated by realpolitik rather than theory -- the latter comes afterwards and is generated by others to justify whatever the CPC does. (Not a criticism, just a general observation.) On the other side, you have works like the Coming Insurrection that are programmatic but haven't actually been implemented.
Currently Vietnam seems like an exception in regards to an ongoing Marxist project that bridges the practical and theoretical.
What I'm trying to do is articulate a trajectory of theory to practice, rather than practice to theory.
I acknowledge it's a bit slippery--dare I say dialectical? I would also point out that "any kind of sustained way" is the crucial distinction I am making. "Any kind," as you truncated it, is very different and I think too generalzed.
Is the work of political theory through dialectical materialism carried out in any kind of sustained way anywhere besides Vietnam?
Xi Jinping, for example, is obviously a Marxist and has a Marxist outlook, but he is not a theoretician. He is motivated by realpolitik rather than theory -- the latter comes afterwards and is generated by others to justify whatever the CPC does. (Not a criticism, just a general observation.) On the other side, you have works like the Coming Insurrection that are programmatic but haven't actually been implemented.
Currently Vietnam seems like an exception in regards to an ongoing Marxist project that bridges the practical and theoretical.
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What I'm trying to do is articulate a trajectory of theory to practice, rather than practice to theory.
I acknowledge it's a bit slippery--dare I say dialectical? I would also point out that "any kind of sustained way" is the crucial distinction I am making. "Any kind," as you truncated it, is very different and I think too generalzed.