MAO ZEDONG'S THEORY OF "NEW DEMOCRACY": THE EXPERIENCE OF MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF AN IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT

ТЕОРИЯ «НОВОЙ ДЕМОКРАТИИ» МАО ЦЗЭДУНА: ОПЫТ МОРФОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО АНАЛИЗА ИДЕОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО КОНСТРУКТА

Meng Yufeng (Мэн Юйфэн)
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Meng Yufeng (Мэн Юйфэн): Southern Federal University

State and Municipal Management Scholar Notes, 2022, vol. 3, 297-306

Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyze the key concepts of Mao Zedong's theory of "new democracy". For this purpose, the author chooses the cognitive understanding of ideology as a methodological guideline, first, the structural-morphological approach of M. Freeden, which allows us to characterize the core of ideology considering its adjacent and peripheral concepts. Relying on the analysis of Mao's texts of the 1920-40 period, the author shows how an ideological construct is formed in the discourse of the leader of the Chinese Communists, which later became known as the "theory of new democracy". The article reveals the meaning of the concepts that make up the core of this theory: the Sinification of Marxism, revolutionary war and new democracy. At the same time, the author also emphasizes the role of adjacent concepts that allow revealing the general meaning of the "new democracy": classes and class struggle, agrarian revolution, Chinese nation, Chinese people, united national front, hegemony, etc.

Keywords: ideological construct; ideological concept; Mao Zedong; class approach; Sinification of Marxism; peasant revolution; revolutionary war; new democracy; nation; people (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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