China's rate of development since 1980 (44 years ago) is not significantly higher than Japan after World War Two, for example. The population and hence the scope are bigger, which may be what misleads Marv about the rate. Worse than Japan, income inequality is more polarized, and several hundred million people remain wage slaves to long hours and very low pay.
China today is the first capitalist country to carry out most of its industrialization after a socialist period. Yes, that affects the form of Chinese capitalism. It is more vicious and more repressive than classic bourgeois democracies. Marv calls that "more advanced" - sick. As for "the Marxist claim dating back to the mid-19th century that capitalism has exhausted its historic potential," it is about capitalism as a whole and at the forefront of productive development. Which Marxist said countries with a huge (Russia) or dominant (China) pre-capitalist sector could not run rapidly through the industrial phase already traversed by England, the U.S., Germany, Japan, etc.? Not Marx. Not Lenin. (By the way, my first paragraph above is a copy of my remark in a thread last month in which Marv rolled out much the same line. He just repeats it a few weeks later.) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30799): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30799 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106728659/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
