In my view China is capitalist. It combines imperialist and semi-colonial features:
http://links.org.au/capitalism-workers-struggle-china "China's economy is now essentially capitalist, as indicated by the privatisation of the bulk of the means of production, and the conversion of labor power into a commodity.... "State-owned enterprises remain dominant in certain strategic industrial sectors such as iron and steel, electricity and telecommunications, and in the banking sector.... "The continued existence of a strong state sector does not make China socialist. In the past, many capitalist countries have had a significant sector of state-owned enterprises". *** "After moving away from its alliance with US imperialism, China acted as a bourgeois nationalist regime... "But now China is starting to look like an imperialist power itself. It has big foreign investments. It intervenes in conflicts in other countries - for example, supporting the Sri Lankan government against the Tamils. It has a military base in Djibouti, a small country in the horn of Africa. "On the other hand, foreign transnational corporations continue to use China as a base for production for the world market, ruthlessly exploiting Chinese workers. In this respect China looks like a semi-colony of Western imperialism". Chris Slee -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1346): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1346 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76674603/21656 -=-=- 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. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
