Bukharin on the Theory of the Productive Forces (and Mao’s counterpoint on New Democratic Revolution)
People's History of Ideas Podcast
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The Influence of the Theory of the Productive Forces on the Chinese Revolution
The theory of the productive forces was championed by most Marxist intellectuals and socialist leaders in the period before World War I. According to this way of thinking, a country had to have a certain level of development of heavy industry in order to have a socialist revolution. This Russian example inspired the people who founded China's Communist Party. Later on in the revolutionary process Mao is going to develop the idea of what he called the new democratic revolution.
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