Re-posted from Libcom for refreshing compensation for our usual euro-centricism
http://libcom.org/library/ancient-utopia-peasant-revolts-china-ngo-van-xuyet
Quote:
In China, as in the West, utopia, so deeply rooted among the dispossessed, proceeds from a popular understanding of emancipation whose memory must be preserved, before it disappears in the tortuous and brutal adaptations to economic modernity that perpetuate the burden of the coercions of the past. Ngo Van XuyetJuly 20, 2004