On 10/25/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't go so far as Henry. But there appears to me to be a huge gap
>between what a majority of Chinese think about the Chinese government
>and what Western leftists tend to think about it
(clip)
>. Nuances are lacking, to put it mildly.
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>Yoshie
I don't know. I find myself persuaded by these nuance-lacking Western
Marxists when it comes to China.
The worsening conditions of the working classes are pushing them
rapidly in a more radical and militant direction. Within the ranks
not only of the workers and peasants, but among many intellectuals
and at least some of the broader new middle class as well, there is a
deep and growing understanding that global capitalism has no answer
to their situations, and that the revolutionary socialism that they
built under Mao offers at least the outline of another way forward
today. In the factories and on the farms, workers and peasants in
China not only are resisting the new forms of capitalist
exploitation, but have memories of another world that they already
know is possible. From their lives during the socialist era before
the reforms, they are aware that viable alternatives exist to the
uncontrolled rampage of global capitalism.
full: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0606weil.htm
But you cut out nuances from the articles: e.g., "Nevertheless, it
would be a serious mistake to exaggerate these tendencies. The Chinese
left as a recognizable force is still small, marginalized, and
divided—like the working classes themselves—into many groupings and
factions" (at
<http://www.monthlyreview.org/0606weil.htm>). :->
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Yoshie
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