Re: Jim Blaut on Lenin and the National Question

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx 11/20/00 10:47PM >
I agree, and I might add that even should China become fully
capitalist, it would probably be still more progressive than Dalai
Lama's Tibet, etc.  That said, at this point in history, I find it
more and more difficult to regard China as socialist; it's not
capitalist yet, but is it really socialist still?

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CB: Was China ever socialist ? Wasn't there a reason it took the name "People's
Republic" and not "Socialist Republic" ?

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More importantly,
whither China in the future?  Yes, there are, in China, people who
think like you, trying to remain true to Maoism; yes, peasants &
workers are struggling hard to hold onto their past gains.  However,
it appears to me that the ruling faction of the Party is fully
committed to the path toward slow but eventual capitalist
restoration.

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CB: Don't they say the opposite ? Why do you disbelieve what they say ?

How is it restoration ? China was not capitalist before , was it ?

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Of course, the gradual nature of transformation makes
the Chinese transition _much superior_ to Perestroika, but,
nonetheless, the direction seems to me to be the same.