Re: [Marxism] China (was: The Teixeira thesis)

[Xenon Zi-Neng Yuan <wenhuadageming@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:19 PM 3/7/2004, you wrote:
> China?!?! This country is utterly unrecognizable as having any kind of
> revolutionary or socialist values and policies.

"utterly" unrecognizable?  myriad of abhorrent problems aside, it's still a
"communist party" in power.  i began to understand (what appears to be)
henry liu's position a bit better when he once argued (something to the
likes of): would you prefer that a solidarity(poland)-type union was formed
there, so that the likes of soros could fund it and completely subvert the
country into an openly-capitalist one?

from my direct interactions, even some of the most money-driven of the
nouveau-riche chinese still hold as their ultimate ideal a socialist or
communist country; they're just locked into the thinking that they must go
through a "primary phase" of development first.  this seems to me a vital
distinction from the emergent middle-class of other countries.  i believe
someone else on this list made mention of this a few weeks ago.

xzy


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