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The charge of economism is frequently brought against revisionists by [[Anti-Revisionism|anti-revisionists]] when economics, instead of politics, is placed in command of society; and when primacy of the development of the productive forces is held over concerns for the nature and relations surrounding those productive forces.

 

Economism became a familiar term in Chinese political discourse only during the [[Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution]] (GPCR).<ref name=":0" /> Mao Zedong criticized the material incentives of economism, arguing that production must be led by revolutionary politics and to reward productivity with money promoted the wrong values and was inconsistent with making factories a bastion of proletarian politics.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Karl |first=Rebecca E. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/503828045 |title=Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth-century world : a concise history |date=2010 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8223-4780-4 |location=Durham [NC] |pages=137 |oclc=503828045}}</ref>