Original
Ideology Without Unity: The Rhizomatic Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Abstract
Abstract This article reconceptualizes Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (Xi Thought hereafter) not as a coherent doctrine but as a rhizomatic ideological formation. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, it treats Xi Thought as a configuration in which coherence is not presupposed but produced through the continual recombining of fragments across institutional sites. Based on an analysis of official publications, including collected works, excerpt volumes and study readers, the article shows how Xi’s speeches are disassembled and reassembled across domains such as law, economy, diplomacy and culture. These recompositions render ideology modular and resilient, allowing elements to be activated, re-weighted or sidelined without destabilizing the system as a whole. The article further argues that ideological coherence is generated through distributed and compulsory participation by Party and state actors, who are required to embed fragments of Xi Thought into institutional practice. Conceptualizing Xi Thought as a rhizome shifts analysis from doctrinal meaning to the operational logic through which ideology acquires administrative force within the Chinese party-state.
中文
无统一性的意识形态：习近平思想的根茎式逻辑
摘要
本文重新将习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想（以下简称习近平思想）概念化为一种根茎式的意识形态构型，而非一套连贯的学说。借鉴吉尔·德勒兹与费利克斯·加塔利的著作，本文将习近平思想视为一种构型：其连贯性并非预设，而是通过碎片在不同制度场域中的持续重组而生产出来。基于对官方出版物的分析，包括文集、摘编本和学习读本，本文展示了习近平的讲话如何在法律、经济、外交和文化等领域中被拆解与重组。这些重组使意识形态变得模块化且具有韧性，使各个要素得以被激活、重新加权或边缘化，而不会动摇整个体系的稳定。本文进一步认为，意识形态的连贯性是通过党和国家机关行为者的分布式且强制性的参与而生成的；这些行为者被要求将习近平思想的碎片嵌入制度实践。将习近平思想概念化为根茎，使分析从教义意义转向意识形态在中国党国体制内获得行政效力的运作逻辑。
关键词
习近平思想、意识形态、根茎、德勒兹与加塔利、中国共产党、党国体制、官方出版物、制度实践