Politics Quote by Gordon G. Chang

“I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and…

— Naomi Novik

“From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party’s prestige and its ability…

— Nien Cheng

“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually, special privileges.…

— Peter Singer

“Since the very beginning of the Communist regime, I had carefully studied books on Marxism and pronouncements by Chinese Communist Party leaders. It seemed…

— Nien Cheng

“The consequence of all this absolutist control of the economy was predictable: the Chinese economy was stagnant throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Mao Zedong himself would have realized that the Communist Party has become weak. “All reactionaries are paper tigers,” he said. And Mao said something…

— Gordon G. Chang

For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right to govern…

— Andre Vltchek

“The limits of Mao’s system have just about been reached. Party cadres say they want the benefits of the Internet, but they also want…

— Gordon G. Chang

“The point is that the Party has lost the power to control what the Chinese people believe.”

— Gordon G. Chang

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising…

— Larry Diamond

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their…

— Gordon G. Chang