In this article, the potential role of China in the world as a rising global power is discussed in light of the Chinese Revolution and China s new status as a main actor. In this framework the discussion emphasizes the postsocialist character of China and is constructed upon the assertion that Mao Zedung s thought constitutes the infrastructure of this concept. The claim that the Revolution is a history of experimentation is put forward and is based on the revolutionary hermeneutics of contradictiondefined as universal, particular and irreconcilable by Mao. On the other hand, in resistance to traditional hierarchies, seemingly insignificant contradictions are not overlooked and they are also ascribed separate dynamics. However, the definition of the principle aspect of contradiction deems practice to be the principle aspect of the contradiction between theory and practice and prioritizes economic infrastructure and therefore production and class struggle. At this point it is noted that the conception of the reform and opening processes after 1978 within the framework of development and the rapid advancement of productive powers created social contradictions. At the same time, the possiblepostsocialist identity of the continuing existence of the faith in social and political transformation against developmentalism, and the possibility of its being defined as a method to overcome these contradictions is questioned. It is anticipated that such a legitimization can appear in the form of a secular utopianism and through a synthesis of the past and the future China can become a new alternative.