The article examines the possibility of the origins of the specific turn into cultural politics after May 68‘ in France and Europe and its rejection of Marxist theory by examining the premises of the theoretical discussion on the dialectical materialism and the revolutionary path in China in the thirties of the previous century. These theoretical developments accompanied the historical events that led to the Great Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution and, much later, to the neoliberal ideology of the free market, which became the leading and exclusive discourse of globalized capitalism in Europe and China after the Tiananmen events.