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March 6, 2013

China's Communists Find Marxism

Charles Burton, Globe and Mail

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The Communist Party leadership is desperate to make Marxism seem relevant to China's contemporary circumstances. The latest national policy, “Project in Theoretical Research and Development of Marxism,” involved a state investment of a billion Chinese yuan. The net result of this massive expenditure was a new political program known as the “Three Confidences,” which states that “the whole party must have firm confidence in this path, have confidence in this theory and have confidence in this system.”

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