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In the present chapter we continue our studies in order, reform and revolution with an examination of societies characterised by inequality and exploitation. We deal first with those without an effective cultural system controlled by the dominant centres and then with societies with hegemonic centres.
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On the background and course of the Chinese Communist revolution, see: H. Alavi, ‘Peasants and Revolution’, in ‘Socialist Register 1965’, ed. R. Miliband and J. Saville (London, 1965) pp. 241–77; M. Bernal, ‘China’ (unpubd 1969)
J. Ch’en, ‘Mao and the Chinese Revolution’ (London, 1965)
J. K. Fairbank, ‘The United States and China’ (Cambridge, Mass., 1959)
C. P. Fitzgerald, ‘The Birth of Communist China’ (Harmondsworth, 1964)
J. P. Harrison, ‘The Communists and Chinese Peasant Rebellions’ (London, 1969)
R. Hofheinz, ‘The Ecology of Chinese Communist Success’, in ‘Chinese Communist Politics in Action’, ed. A. D. Barnett (Seattle, 1969) pp. 3–77
C. J. Johnson, ‘Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power’ (Stanford, 1962); Moore, ‘Social Origins’, pp. 162–227
F. Schurman and O. Schell (eds.), ‘China Readings’ (Harmondsworth, 1968)
E. Snow, ‘Red Star Over China’ (London, 1938)
R. H. Tawney, ‘Land and Labour in China’ (London, 1932).
P. Berger and T. Luckmann, ‘The Social Construction of Reality’ (London, 1967), for a more detailed discussion: pp. 65–145.
This is true of actual war — peace-time military expenditure typically serves to maintain the strength of the economic centre through the resultant profits and production: see P. A. Baran and P. M. Sweezy, ‘Monopoly Capital’ (Harmondsworth, 1968) pp. 178–214.
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Jessop, B. (1972). Studies in Order, Reform and Revolution — II. In: Social Order, Reform and Revolution. New Perspectives in Sociology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00967-1_7
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