On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 03:44 PM, Charlie wrote: > > Why should anyone take it seriously when Marv quotes sympathetically about > "Xi as representative of those forces in the party and state which are > trying to contain its economic and political rise in accordance with the > Leninist formula of state capitalism under the dictatorship of the > proletariat."
I do think the party-state still controls the private sector but am not enamoured of the term "proletarian dictatorship" to describe the system. Lenin and the early Marxists,of course, contrasted the workers' state to "bourgeois dictatorships", but the term is widely misunderstood today. "Socialist market economy" better conveys the difference with Western capitalism that most contemporary audiences can understand, and that is how the PRC itself defines the system. However, as I've noted previously, I'm with Roberts and others who don't believe China has yet reached that higher stage and that the possibility remains that the private sector will gain control of the state to restore capitalism or that the CPC leadership itself will dismantle the SOE's and redistribute their considerable assets to itself - as the CP leaderships did throughout the Soviet bloc in the 90's. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29501): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29501 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104961025/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
