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Chinese Development Policy: Recent Collections of Comment

Selden and Lippit have chosen an ambitious title for their collection, The Transition to Socialismr in China. But this title is misleading. In the Selden and Lippit collection contributions have most often reduced the notion 'socialist transition' to a considerably narrower concept better described as the economic development problems encountered by China's central planners. In their introductory chapter Selden and Lippit launch into the problems of economic development that have provided the sense of continuity for their collection. Develonment problems such as the undermining of worker incentive to produce and accumulate are broached. The point is made that in the face of China's present modernisation policy, there is no mechanism whereby people's consciousness will automatically be transformed when the major goals of modernisation have been attained. If the Selden and Lippit collection had maintained this focus on any tension (or otherwise) between 'modernisation' and the pursuit of 'socialist goals' then their book would have earned its title. But it is only the Lippit contribution to the collection that clearly sustains a concern for 'socialist ends'. Lippit notes that if the Chinese industrial enterprise seeks accumulation in accord with an economy that is integrated through the use of market mechanisms, then serving socialist ends may well be undermined. At the same time, Lippit points out that it is not immediately obvious how central planning can be reconciled with control over the production process by the working people. Lippit's concern for 'socialist ends' is one that is not apparently shared by other contributors to Selden and Lippit's Transition to Socialism ... collection. For example, Walder's contribution displays a considerably narrower