Abstract
A considerable amount of current writing on Chinese economic policies holds that post-Mao China is now departing from socialism. Perhaps the most spectacular argument along these lines on the left was represented by Charles Bettelheim in his letter of resignation of May 1977 as Chairman of the Franco-Chinese Friendship Association. In this, which came even prior to the official rehabilitation of Deng Xiaoping, Bettelheim asserted that he saw a revisionist line triumphing in the People's Republic of China and that the call giving production primacy over revolution was concrete proof that the capitalist restoration was succeeding., Bettelheim subsequently extended and elaborated his thoughts on the political situation at the invitation of Monthly Review; in an article entitled 'The Great Leap Backward', he concluded
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