Critique 1.- Capitalist Agriculture is Not a Way Forward.- Chapter 1. Lenin’s Theory of the ‘American Path’ and Russian-Soviet Capitalist Agriculture .- Chapter 2. The ‘American Path’ and the Global Hegemony of U.S. Agriculture.- Chapter 3. The ‘Prussian Path,’ Militarism, and Late Capitalist Agriculture .- Critique 2. Revolution and the Problem of Reform.- Chapter 4. The Importance of Land Nationalization.- Chapter 5. Marxist Feudal Theory, Qin Hui’s Theory of ‘Division,’ and Democracy.- Chapter 6. The Failure of the Market Reform in the Soviet Union.- Critique 3 The Real Difference Between Despotic and Democratic Politics.- Chapter 7. What is the ‘Greek/Roman path’?.- Chapter 8. ‘Oriental Despotism’ and Marxist Thought.- Chapter 9. The ‘Asiatic Mode of Production’ and Revolution. Conclusion.- Chapter 10. Imagining a ‘Chinese Path’.
Lv Xinyu is among China's most prominent scholars of rural-urban inequities. Trained in Anhui, Zhejiang, and Fudan, her research spans anthropology, philosophy, and economically-grounded readings of history. Director of ECNU-Cornell Center for Comparative Humanities. She has published numerous books and essays in English, Chinese and French.