On 3/30/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nowadays, though, many Marxists who still insist on Marxist rhetoric have in effect embraced capitalist development as good in and of itself, as they have practically given up on any transition to a socialist future. China and India are good examples of that change. -- Yoshie
China and India are using capitalist development as a pragmatic response - how else do you improve your own position in a world dominated by capital? However it seems that there is plenty of awareness both in India and China about the destructive potential of capital. Rather than "embrace" it, the elites in these countries are trying to make a compromise. In India at least, this philosophy goes back to the early post-independence years (a planned "mixed economy" combining the best of both the capitalist and communist worlds). The danger, of course is that you dance with the devil at your own great peril. Capital does appear to be acquiring a life of its own and the leadership of China and India, no matter how well-intentioned or enlightened can only control it to some extent. -raghu.
