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3. Mark Selden contrasts Mao's 'political economy of people's war' and his 'political economy of the transition to socialism'. How does he explain the transition from the first to the second?

Do you think that the Chinese leadership followed his advice that the lessons of the earlier political economy 'merit further study as China's leaders in the 1980s again grapple with rethinking the parameters of the socialist economy and society'? In what ways?

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