From Marx to Mao to Jintao

Dost Mittar,
What do you say about the role of Capitalist USA in providing the market for Chinese products?
Do you think without Nixon's trip to China, it (China) would have prospered the way it has?

Thanks for this write up, Dost Mittar. I had not known that citizens were dispossessed of their homes for the Olympics. I had just been going through the photos of the opening ceremonies and thinking how tremendous it must have been. All those thousands of performers might be seen symbolically of each citizen made homeless in this bid of China as ascending superpower.

Dost Mittar sahib
Thanks for bringing us all the insightful info about china's revolution, Marx theory and china's economical growth. ver well written.
I just finished watching opening ceremony of beijing Olympics. wow! mesmerising....magical. Esp the use of light and trapeze techniques.
Marx or Mao or Jintao whoever 's theory they followed the only ingredient behind success of any nation's success is honest hard work. I love China
Nikhat Riaz

Dear reader:

"Turning Historical Materialism on Its Head" is not supposed to be the opening sentence; it was the title of the submitted article.

The essay equates "great leap forward" with "cultural revolution". This was not so: great leap forward preceded cultural revolution.

I apologise for these errors.