China Social-Imperialism CPI Maoist 2021 Amended Edition

Jul 6, 2026

Document titled as a Central Committee statement of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), presenting China as a new social-imperialist power integrated into the world capitalist-imperialist system. It summarizes the party’s rationale for studying social, economic, political, cultural and military changes in revisionist China, then argues China’s rise involves monopoly capitalism, finance capital, and participation in international economic and military blocs. It also frames modern wars and crises as products of imperialism and calls for revolutionary consolidation to eliminate revisionism, imperialism and Chinese social-imperialism.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages84

Reading Time3 h 32 min

Foreword

Socialist Revolution: 1949-1976

Situation in Revisionist China After the Restoration of Capitalism

China as an Important Economic Power in the World

Chinese Monopoly Capitalist Organisations

Finance Capital in China

Export of Capital and the Hegemony of Finance Capital in the World

Formation of International Economic and Military Blocks

Chinese Social-Imperialism

Imperialism History as Crises, Wars, Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions

Conclusion

Notes

China – a new Social-Imperialist power! It is integral to the World CapitalistImperialist system! Central Committee Communist Party of India (Maoist) China – a new Social-Imperialist power! It is integral to the World CapitalistImperialist system! Central Committee Communist Party of India (Maoist) | | Note | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | The Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) wrote the document 'China – a new Social-Imperialist power! It is integral to the World CapitalistImperialist system!' and released it in 2017 July. Later the CC received certain suggestions, comments and amendments from few of the CC comrades and comrades of the State Committees. The CC discussed those and is releasing the amended document. | | | | | | 2021 January | Revolutionary Greetings Central Committee<br>CPI (Maoist) | | China – a new Social-Imperialist power! It is integral to the World Capitalist-Imperialist system! First Edition: July 2017 Second (Amended) Edition: 2021 January A Document of Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Maoist) Index Foreword 7 1. Socialist Revolution:1949-1976 10 2. Situation in revisionist China after the restoration of Capitalism 14 3. China has become an important economic power in the world 34 4. Chinese monopoly capitalist organisations .... 37 5. Finance capital in China .... 42 6. ‘Export of capital leads to the hegemony of Finance Capital in the world’ 46 7. Formation of International economic, military blocks and the increasing hold of Chinese imperialists over it 61 8. Chinese Social-Imperialism .... 65 9. ‘The history of imperialism is nothing but that of crises, wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions’ 67 Conclusion .... 74 Notes .... 77 Foreword The Unity Congress-Ninth Congress of CPI (Maoist) in January 2007 decided to study the social, economic, political, cultural and military changes in revisionist-capitalist China. The responsibility of implementing this decision was given to the Central Committee. According to the decision of the fourth meeting of the CC, it took up the study of developments in China and whether it changed into a social-imperialist power. After a study the fifth meeting of the CC took it up for discussion. It decided that the ‘Present China became a new Social-Imperialist power, it is integral to the World Capitalist-imperialist system and it became an enemy of the oppressed nationalities and people of the World’. With the aim of making the World Socialist Revolution a success, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties, groups and forces across the world have to consolidate workers-peasants, the rest of the oppressed masses and the oppressed nationalities and advance the revolutionary movement in order to eliminate revisionism, imperialism in the world and Chinese Social Imperialism and counter revolution that at present turned to be an enemy of the world masses. Both of these will be the main tasks of Communist parties and organisations that have revolutionary proletariat internationalism. The character of Chinese Social-Imperialism must be exposed to fulfill these tasks. We have to understand the development of China as an important competitive imperialist power and its development and thus the actual friends and foes as per the class polarization in the world. We have to correctly analyse the intensifying basic contradictionsin the world and the specific conditions of the same. Unless we study these issues we cannot understand or correctly analysethe contradictionsin the contemporary imperialist system, the politics of modern revisionism and modern wars. The twentieth century has proved the formulation of Lenin that ‘Imperialism is the Highest stage of Capitalism’, that Imperialism means nothing but war, it is on the death-bed and that Imperialism means the beginning of Socialist revolution. This applies even today. War is the highest form related to the division and re-division of the world by im

FAQs

Who issued the document and when was the amended edition released?

The document is issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The amended second edition was released in January 2021.

What decision triggered the Central Committee’s study of China?

The Unity Congress–Ninth Congress in January 2007 instructed the CPI (Maoist) to study changes in revisionist-capitalist China across social, economic, political, cultural and military dimensions, and whether China had become social-imperialist.

How does the document explain the relationship between imperialism and modern wars?

It argues that imperialism is inseparable from war, with wars arising from crises and the imperialist division and re-division of the world, and that wars cannot be eliminated without eliminating the capitalist-imperialist system.

Jul 6, 2026

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