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About the Author
Arthur Waldron is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently assisting the general editor, Professor Stuart Schram, in preparing Mao Zedong's Civil War writings for publication in the series Mao's Road to Power, sponsored by Harvard University.

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"Furthermore, the post-Maoist China specialists have been among the best in the academic world at dealing with the utter collapse of Marxism and Communism, in whose warm hegemonic status they had long comfortably basked. For it is hard not to suspect that the whole phenomenon of deconstruction and post-modernism, with its attack on the idea of objective truth, is really an elaborate rear guard action to somehow reclaim something of Marxism by denying the possibility of any philosophy being actually correct. The irony of course is that Marxism was long second to none in its self-confidence, in its belief both in its empirical foundation and its philosophical arguments."

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