REUTERS: ,,, The Politburo, a powerful decision-making council with two dozen active members, said on Monday a party congress next month would discuss amending the party’s constitution.
Previous amendments, including one implicitly allowing party membership for capitalists, have formed the guidelines for important economic and political reforms in the world’s most populous country.
But, crucially, the Politburo in its statement on the issue left out what had been standard wording citing Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, which adapted the original theories of Marxism that grew out of industrial Europe to the conditions of largely rural China when Mao took over in 1949… (more)
