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China's economy and the Maoist strategy

wasteful form of social organization, Chu's position stimulates reflection about the systemic implications of such policies as the combination of red and expert. A recurring criticism of functionalism is that it offers a poor vehicle for the explication of social change. Unfortunately, Chu's analysis is not immune to this objection. At the most abstract level, change is most often presented as the consequence of exogenous influences. The greatest of these is the Communist Party, which too often assumes the role of outside agitator, unrooted in the society it seeks to transform. Although Chu qualifies many of his stronger assertions, one leaves the book with the feeling that change is something that is done to the people of China, rather than by them. There is frequent reference to "feedback" from the populace, but it seems not to have occurred to Chu to consider the behavior of high political leaders as feedback to the messages they receive from the basic levels of society. The concept of the mass line receives no serious analysis; indeed, it is not discussed at all.