Hobbes & Weber vs. Marx & Mao: The Political Economy of Decentralization in China
Author(s)
Andors, Steve
Abstract
This essay begins with a discussion of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Max Weber, whose theories of human nature and socio-economic change, respectively, stand at the center of an understanding of liberal theories of power distribution and modernization. The Hobbes-Weber paradigm is then compared to the Marxist one, which is taken to be basic to the Chinese approach to political economy, and which includes Lenin’s theory of the party.
