‘탈정치화의 정치’로의 충칭사건 ― 왕후이의 「충칭사건 ― 밀실정치와 신자유주의의 권토중래」를 중심으로

Abstract

This essay analyzes the 2012 Chonqing Incident on the dismissal of Bo Xilai, the former party secretary of Chongqing written by Wang Hui, which has been considered as the most important political event in China since 1989. This case is concerned with depoliticized politics, in other words, the repudiation and forgetting of the sixties. As we know, the Chinese sixties had the Cultural Revolution as its main content. The Chongqing model involves quite distinctive social reforms. Large-scale industrial and infra-structural development went with an ideology of greater equality. Open debate and public participation were encouraged, and policies adjusted accordingly. This analysis hence engages four intimately linked realms of inquiries. First, this essay explores the meaning of social movement in 1978 in the context of depoliticized politics. Second, this study focuses on transference to the state-party concerning depoliticized politics. Depoliticized politics came out of the transformation of party politics from a party-state system to a state-party system,whereby the party lost its independence and representative character and became wholly an organ of state power. Third,, this inquiry concentrates on the memory of Cultural Revolution and the tendency of depoliticized politics. The continuing “thorough negation” of the Cultural Revolution, beginning in the late seventies and continuing to this day, gradually became a negation of the entire Chinese revolution, and under these conditions. Lastly, this essay explores the meaning of revolution for the project of re-politiicization. This era is a crisis of representatives and in this perspective Wang hui starts to think the new form of politicized politics, the party - state system where it is possible to have a concept of performative pracice and equality.