I just want to add one thing. According to the evidence presented by those who claim that China is not capitalist, or they are on their own unprecedented road to socialism, like the share of state owned enterprises in the GDP or the percentage of the workforce employed by the state, etc. Russia is, right now, at least 1.5 times more socialist than China. Of course, nobody in his right mind propagates that level of nonsense because, unlike China, Russian imperialism does not bother investing to misrepresent its own economic structure. The Chinese bourgeois-bureaucratic ruling class, however, plays a remarkably active role in financing to conceal the class character of a gigantic factory that churns out commodities (the basic unit of capitalism) in massive quantities. It is not a bit surprising, thus, to encounter frequently somebody waxing lyrical about the Chinese socialism.
Further reading: A debate between Chris Harman and Ernest Mandel. You might assume that I support Harman in this debate, but I think he was wrong about classifying Soviet Russia as capitalist, because the profit motive was not the main catalyst of Soviet investments. https://tinyurl.com/4y7ywmeb -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31133): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31133 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107192725/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
