China is a single-party state ruled by a Communist Party. At the same time, it
has become the leading actor of the global market economy, with the usual
trappings of capitalism - millionaires, stock exchanges, labour exploitation,
etc.
In the face of such contradictions, how might one even
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:54 PM Brian Holmes
wrote:
> Perhaps this thing called the Left exists in a world where actions have
> consequences.
>
Or perhaps the Left has too long lingered in its own beautiful realm of
theory only to find that the far right has guns and are willing to use them
to
No need to answer inane provocations, shallow insults, sterile
ejaculations, like this sentence.
Ignore them, or best to offer constructive comments as you most often
do, those which lead to productive exchanges. Like this sentence.
At 03:22 PM 1/15/2021, you wrote:
For what reason do you
For what reason do you wish to evaluate China? Do they need to fulfill
some doctrinaire and idealist definition of communism such that we don't
denounce them and deny their accomplishments?
The CPC has many millions of well-informed members. What does our
ill-informed opinion matter?
And
A question for Dmytri:
Is China a truly Communist country, and if so, what are the markers of this?
Best -
Joseph Rabie.
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On 2021-01-12 22:49, Ryan Griffis wrote:
Dmytri, I have no interest in engaging further in whatever it is
you’re doing, or think you’re doing, here.
Why do you feel my contribution here is particularly suspicious or
illegitimate?
I did *not* attempt "to use _ Stedile, a leader of MST,
On 2021-01-15 10:55, William Waites wrote:
These days I spend most of my time in some sort of no-man's land
between
theoretical computer science and applied mathematics. I don't know much
about the philosophers that you quote.
Everything I know about philosophy I learned from Existential
Am 11/01/21 um 13:59 schrieb Frank Rieger:
> China is just another imperialist racist state that happens to be the enemy
> of the other large imperialist racist state, the US. I can understand the
> need for a shining beacon of hope for the left. China & Co. are not it.
Isnt that life as usual?
Hello Nettime,
I'm sorry to see that this thread has degenerated, but I wonder whether
this was inevitable. Are the terms "left" and "right" meaningful any
more, as an axis to distinguish political positions?
We have, apparently, established that the "right" says is favours a
small state,
Dmytri Kleiner writes:
> Federated small groups with voluntary structures that analyze and
> iterate. [...] The trouble is the western left has mostly abandoned
> this strategy in favour of third party "advocacy" or "mobilizing" or
> other punditry and doesn't want to be on the same team as the
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