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I don't know how excited we should get about Wang being a Marxist. Isn't it predictable that functionaries in China would consider themselves Marxists? Out of tradition, if nothing else? Best Wishes, - A On Jun 22, 2015 3:50 PM, "Louis Proyect via Marxism" < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On June 15th an article by John Bellamy Foster titled “Marxism, Ecological > Civilization, and China” appeared on MRZine. It was the fourth in a series > of exchanges that date back to a February 2012 Monthly Review article by > Zhihe Wang titled “Ecological Marxism in China”. > > Wang, who is the director of the Center for Constructive Postmodern > Studies and professor of philosophy at Harbin Institute of Technology in > China, discusses the penetration of Marxist ecological theories in China > including those that should be familiar to those of you who keep abreast of > such matters: 1. James O’Connor’s theory of the “Second Contradiction” 2. > Joel Kovel’s Frankfurt Marxist analysis 3. Foster/Paul Burkett, which Wang > implies is the only one that is strictly Marxist. > > For the most part, Wang is enthusiastic about the arrival of a Green-Red > synthesis and gives equal credit to academicians like Foster and Chinese > officials such as Yi Junqing, who Wang describes as: > > the Minister of Central Bureau of Compilation and Translation (a > top government institution on Marxism Studies in China), believes that > “Marxism will lose its vitality” if it does not address the ecological > crisis in the twenty-first century. > > Wow. That’s pretty good news, ain’t it? A top government official is not > only a Marxist but someone who emphatically believes that ecosocialism > should become official government policy. I must have dozed off somewhere > along the line not to have noticed this. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2015/06/22/is-china-going-green-a-reply-to-john-bellamy-foster/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/adgagneri%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
