THE END OF THE GLOBAL EQUILIBRIUM: A COUNTER-NARRATIVE FROM THE SOUTH

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. For example unipolar hegemony, neo-liberal globalization, the September 11 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, the spread of Islamic fundamentalism. 2. The pioneering authority on Maoism, Stuart Schram, had been prescient when he opined as far back as 1963 that “For the moment there appears to be little possibility of meaningful dialogue, let alone of agreement between Mao Tse-tung and the United States. Yet, in the long run, Sino-American relations may well prove to be the most important single factor in shaping the world of the future.” See: Stuart Schram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung (New York: Praeger, 1963), p. 74. 3. Kimmo Kiljunen, Kampuchea: Decade of the Genocide (London: Zed Books, 1984), p. 84. 4. A. Doak Barnett, Communist China and Asia (New York: Random House, 1961), p. 337. 5. Umberto Melotti, Marx and the Third World (London: Macmillan, 1971), pp. 128–140. 6. V.I. Lenin, “Backward Europe and Advanced Asia,” in The Awakening of Asia (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1973), pp. 28–29. 7. V.I. Lenin, “Better Fewer but Better,” in Selected Works (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952), Vol. 11, Part 11, p. 750. 8. Isaac Deutscher in his “Marxism, Wars and Revolutions” posthumously published an anthology of essays from four decades with an introduction by Tamara Deutscher. See: Isaac Deutscher, Marxism, Wars & Revolutions: Essays from Four Decades, ed. Tamara Deutscher(New York: Schocken Books, January 1985), 256 p. 9. Isaac Deutscher in his “Marxism, Wars and Revolutions” posthumously published an anthology of essays from four decades with an introduction by Tamara Deutscher. See: Isaac Deutscher, Marxism, Wars & Revolutions: Essays from Four Decades, ed. Tamara Deutscher(New York: Schocken Books, January 1985), p. 182. 10. J.V. Stalin, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1972), pp. 30-32. 11. Isaac Deutscher, The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917–1967 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 91. 12. William Yandell Elliot, The Chomsky Reader (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), p. 251. 13. Noam Chomsky, Radical Priorities (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1984), p. 226. 14. Harrison Salisbury, writing in 1969, envisaged the scenario and set out the consequences of any such rapprochement: “It would be dangerous to overlook the possibility that Mao's death could bring a sharp turn in Chinese policy, a switch back towards a line of arms-length collaboration with Moscow, a deliberate relaxation of border tensions, in ideology, and in relations with other Communist parties, an effort to minimize rather than maximize frictions. Such a right-angle turn in Chinese policy could … restore the Sino-Soviet alliance as a major actor in the world balance of power and inaugurate a new era of Russian-Chinese collaboration directed … specifically against the United States. It would confront the United States with the most critical foreign policy crisis of the century—the prospect of facing 1,000 to 1,200 million Chinese and Russians armed with nuclear weapons in bewildering array, the latest in modern military technology, striding the Eurasian supercontinent like a colossus.” See: Harrison Salisbury, The Coming War Between Russia and China (London: Pan, 1969), p. 205. 15. Keith Richburg, “Back to Vietnam,” Foreign Affairs (Fall 1991), pp. 111–132. 16. “The United States qualitatively expanded its relationship with China. As early as 1980 U.S.–Chinese cooperation assumed a more direct strategic dimension with sensitive undertakings not only toward Afghanistan but also on other matters. Thus the Soviet Union faced the growing geopolitical menace of a counter-encirclement.” See: Zbiegniew Brzezinski, “The Cold War and Its Aftermath,” Foreign Affairs (Fall 1992), p. 42. 17. See: “Resolution on CPC History (1949–1981),” adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on June 27, 1981 (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981). 18. Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell, eds., Communist China (London: Penguin, 1968), pp. 598–602; also Mark Selden, ed., The People's Republic of China (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979), p. 107. 19. Lin Piao, The International Significance of Comrade Mao Tse-tung’ s Theory of Peoples’ War (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1965), in Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell, eds., Communist China (London: Penguin, 1968), pp. 342–354. 20. Hugh Seton Watson, “The Great Schism,” Encounter, 116 (London, May 1963), p. 61. 21. Regis Debray, Critique of Political Reason (London: Verso), 1983. 22. Harrison Salisbury, The Coming War Between Russia and China” pp. 184–185. 23. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious (London: Methuen, 1981), pp. 101–102.