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Ian Johnson Quotes

born 1962 Canada

Ian Johnson (born July 27, 1962) is a Beijing-based writer and independent scholar. Johnson writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and The New York Times.

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Marxism is not inherently adaptive, instead relying on historical determinism to analyze social development and chart a political path.

Xi Jinping has many goals, such as battling corruption, fostering innovation, and projecting power abroad through his Belt and Road Initiative, but controlling history underlies them all.

For the Chinese Communist Party, history is legitimacy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ian Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.