On Xi Jinping

Abstract

On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World presents the ideological worldview of Xi Jinping, who holds near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It explains how the ideological shift of Marxist-Leninist nationalism reflected the real world of Chinese policy and behaviour. Xi’s notion of Leninism took the party and Chinese politics further to the left, while Marxism took the Chinese economic thinking to the left. Meanwhile, changes in worldview reflected Xi’s broader rehabilitation of the concept of struggle as a legitimate concept for the conduct of Chinese domestic policy and Chinese foreign policy. Moreover, Xi’s ideological worldview exhibited a new level of nationalist self-confidence about China’s future.