Comments on: Exporting Maoism http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/exporting-maoism/ The China History Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Jonathan Dresner http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/exporting-maoism/comment-page-1/#comment-67066 Jonathan Dresner Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:53:23 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/exporting-maoism/#comment-67066 Well, nothing says Pramoedya has to follow in the footsteps of previous radicals: there's always a new synthesis somewhere between the cracks. Well, nothing says Pramoedya has to follow in the footsteps of previous radicals: there’s always a new synthesis somewhere between the cracks.

]]> By: Alan Baumler http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/exporting-maoism/comment-page-1/#comment-66929 Alan Baumler Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:41:34 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/exporting-maoism/#comment-66929 Yes, the "solution" is pretty conservative, but the attack on the traditional class system, marriage, and family is a lot more radical and traditionally leftist, or at least it sounds like it. Or maybe I am reading too much of Pramoedya's 60's statements about the role of literature in revolution into this book. Yes, the “solution” is pretty conservative, but the attack on the traditional class system, marriage, and family is a lot more radical and traditionally leftist, or at least it sounds like it. Or maybe I am reading too much of Pramoedya’s 60′s statements about the role of literature in revolution into this book.

]]> By: Jonathan Dresner http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/exporting-maoism/comment-page-1/#comment-66876 Jonathan Dresner Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:14:20 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/exporting-maoism/#comment-66876 It sounds like Pramoedya is following the localist/anarchist tradition of folks like Wendell Berry, more than any conventional leftist line. It also reminds me a bit of the agricultural/traditional nationalism of pre-war Japan, siting the locus of national character and anti-modernist solution in the village community model. It shares a critique of statism, capitalism and industrialism with the Left, but the solution is deeply conservative. It sounds like Pramoedya is following the localist/anarchist tradition of folks like Wendell Berry, more than any conventional leftist line. It also reminds me a bit of the agricultural/traditional nationalism of pre-war Japan, siting the locus of national character and anti-modernist solution in the village community model.

It shares a critique of statism, capitalism and industrialism with the Left, but the solution is deeply conservative.

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