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Wittfogel’s ‘Oriental Despotism’ *
2018Professor Wittfogel himself bears witness that, though the cultivators in ‘hydraulic’ oriental societies have no say in the government of their community, they are not slaves either. But plantation slavery has played a big part in mankind’s economic history.
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The China Quarterly, 1960
Communist China is not an “Asiatic” (“hydraulic”) society; nor is Mao's government a replica of the power system called “Oriental despotism.” Comparative analysis reveals basic similarities as well as important dissimilarities between Communist totalitarianism and the absolutist régimes that prevailed in traditional Asia, North Africa and certain parts
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Communist China is not an “Asiatic” (“hydraulic”) society; nor is Mao's government a replica of the power system called “Oriental despotism.” Comparative analysis reveals basic similarities as well as important dissimilarities between Communist totalitarianism and the absolutist régimes that prevailed in traditional Asia, North Africa and certain parts
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“Oriental Despotism” and Russia
Slavic Review, 1963Having recently put out a history of Russia, I have been the recipient of many comments on my book. One professor wrote to the publishers: "This is O.K. but doesn't seem to add very much.... The point of view seems standard-Western." Apparently he had found nothing mlore stimulating, for hie added generously that he might wvant to use my hiistory as a ...
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China as an Oriental Despotism
Problems of Post-Communism, 1995Mao turned China into a modernized version of the traditional Oriental despotism, adding a political party and a different ideology. His rule was a bloody and wasteful failure.
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Oriental Despotism: The Case of Qajar Iran
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1974As R. H. Tawney once remarked, ‘the past reveals to the presenr what the present is capable of seeing’. Present political scientists who are interested in comparing past power structures have been the first observers to reveral methodically the fundaqmental differences between feudalism and oriental despotism.
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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1958
E. G. Pulleyblank, Karl A. Wittfogel
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E. G. Pulleyblank, Karl A. Wittfogel
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