PART ONE: MAO AS a MARXIST I. This Part Draws On: Snow, I937/I96I
Notes PART ONE: MAO AS A MARXIST I. This Part draws on: Snow, I937/I96I; I970; I973; Ch'en, I965, Schram, I967a; and Han Suyin I972; I976. There have, of course, been thousands of texts on this or that aspect ofCPC theory and practice which draw upon Mao's work in a more or less useful manner. Certain of this work has been outstanding, for example: the detailed studies ofjan Myrdal and jack Gray or the wider ranging work of Macciocchi. Our debt to the studies of Charles Bettelheim, already mentioned in SCMT, is acknowledged again here. For one assessment of recent texts by Mao, see Stavis, I976. We shall deal with Soviet and Trotskyist assessments of Mao in Part Three of our book. 2. Our citation method involves consulting the Bibliography, for fuller details of works cited. The text used-here Marx's Eightunth Brumaire-is identified by date and page(s) after the author's name. 3· Rossanda's text was first published in 11 Manifesto, July-Aug. I970, then translated in Temps modernes, Dec. I970/Jan. I97I, thence to Socialist Register, I97I. Compare three texts (I97I, I974 and I976) but note some significant criticisms in Bettelheim (I 97 I b). Rossanda, in general, reifies 'Stalinism' ignoring what Bettelheim now sees as the 'Bolshevik ideological formation' (I977: I5f). 4· Since Althusser goes on to speak of 'a silent critique' and pecause it has been claimed that the critique mentioned by Althusser 'remained so implicit as not to have come to the attention of the Chinese Communist Party [sic], which is under the illusion that it is loyal to Stalin's memory' (Callinicos, I976: 93); it is as well now, in advance of detailed examination in Part Three, to refer the reader to Chapter 4 of SCMT and to published texts available in English and French translation for many years which are critical of Stalin.
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