Jim Devine wrote: > In the US left, there have always been those who aren't interested in > promoting socialism as much as the economic development of > underdeveloped nations. These folks prefer state-promoted economic > development, rejecting the neoliberal market-oriented approach. They > may not like much of what the Chinese government does, but see the > problem more as a matter of the CP there being ignorant or misled > about policy issues. They don't worry about class issues as much as > international core/periphery relationships. > > To the extent that these folks see themselves as socialist, they > equate socialism with state ownership and/or control of the means of > production, missing or minimizing the need for popular-democratic > control of the state. (Sometimes they seem to assume that workers' > control of the state prevails -- despite the clear lack of democracy > -- perhaps due to the alleged ability of the CP to know and act on > workers' long-term interests while ignoring its own collective > interests and its members' individual interests.) > > A classic case of this phenomenon was the late Paul Baran.
I think you mean Gus Hall and Sam Marcy rather than Paul Baran. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
