The July-August issue of Monthly Review is devoted in almost its entirety to a consideration of China's economy and what this tells us about the fate of socialism there, or as Harry Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster put it:
"We depart this year from our usual practice for MR's July-August double issue. Instead of a collection of articles on a common theme, we are devoting the issue to a single manuscript—a study of China and economic development theory by Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett that will be published in book form by Monthly Review Press early next year. Although there are numerous books on China, this one is especially worthy. It is a careful, clear, well-grounded Marxist study of how a major post-revolutionary society turned away from socialism. In addition, the current transformation in China throws light on why capitalism, by its very nature, creates poverty, inequality, and ecological destruction in the process of economic growth." Unfortunately most of this issue is not accessible online. But the Editors' Forward and Hart-Landsberg & Burkett's introduction are. See: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0704editors.htm http://www.monthlyreview.org/0704intro.htm Also see John Mage's tribute to the late Bill Hinton, who was a leading China expert: http://www.monthlyreview.org/billhinton.htm ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
