Problems of Socialism, Capitalist Restoration and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

The present essay was published in the Hindi journal ‘Dayitvabodh’ in its November-December 1993 issue under the Mao Tse-tung Birth Centenary Series but it was written in 1990. It was first presented as the base paper at the five-day All-India seminar at Gorakhpur organised by the Long-live Marxism Forum (6-10 June, 1990). The topic of the seminar was “Problems of Socialism, Capitalist Restoration and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.”   The essay presents a class-analysis of the events in the erstwhile Soviet Union and East European countries at that time (1990) and underlines the epochal contributions of Mao Tse-tung while…