前几天收到了这本Verso出的“新”书。翻了一下基本上是把《去政治化的政治》中的文章翻译成英文。对于中文读者来说不会有太多的惊喜。
他为这本书做了一个英文版的序言。老样子，提出的问题比解答的问题要多（这恐怕也是很多人看他的东西觉得很头大的原因。因为发散思路太快了）。他大致勾勒了几个方向：独立自主以及其政治含义；农民的角色以及其转变；国家的立场；主权结构的转变；党的分化(stratification)所带来的悖论。他说
These are also questions we need to consider in thinking about China’s political transformation, alongside the question of China’s democratic road. Specifically, I think there are at least three aspects we need to consider. First, China experienced a long and profound revolution in the twentieth century, so that Chinese society retains an acute sensitivity toward the demands of fairness and social equality. How should these historical and political traditions be translated into democratic demands under contemporary conditions? In other words, what is the mass line or the popular democracy of this new era?
Second, the CCP is massive and has experienced significant changes, becoming more entangled with state apparatuses with each day. How can this party system become more democratic, and how can the state’s ability to represent the universal interest be preserved while the role of the party is being transformed?
Third, how can a new political form be constructed upon the social base, granting greater political capacity to mass society and thereby overcoming the condition of “depoliticization” created through neoliberalism’s marketization? These questions have bred further important, theoretical lines of inquiry, including: under conditions of globalization of marketization, in what political direction will the PRC move towards? How can a dialectic of increased self-reliance and increased opening up be forged in Chinese society? This “self-reliance” does not refer to natinalistic or ethnocentric tendencies but rather the reestablishment of values and plitics along different lines — if anything, is a new internatinalism. The global significance of this exploration should be obvious given the universal crisis of democracy and market.
这里他想要做的理论工作，不仅仅是解释为什么如此，通过回答这些问题，指涉到的是他所设想的那个（对外）的国际主义都有些什么样的内涵？（对内）的分析如何突破党国体制去政治化的困境。他认为考虑这些问题的时机在这自由民主和市场经济遭受普遍性危机的时候显得尤其重要。他的很多分析我还是看的不太明白，特别是那个去政治化那一个，思路太多，理不清楚。希望以后有机会再当面请教了。看到他所提到的第三点，想起一个月前跟人在网上讨论这“新政治”的问题，真是余音在耳。
另外，下周在哈佛有个会，看起来挺不错的，有机会的别忘了去听听。
