Re: [Marxism] Chinese President Meets Taiwanese Opposition Leader

[John Enyang <x03002f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walter:
>During the era of the industrial revolution, skilled artisans
>were thrown out of work and replaced by industrial factory
>workers at lower salaries. Pollution was caused by industrial
>exhaust. Life was made more cruel, nasty, brutish and short.
>But progress for humanity took place through the industrial
>development process. For some reason, this occurrence in
>contemporary China is bothersome to some who describe
>their philosophy as Marxist. The critics don't offer a better
>alternative. They seem fairly content with China-bashing...

In other words, you can't make omelette without breaking eggs.

Interestingly, William Hinton who was probably as far as anyone
could get from being a "China basher,"  in the end evaluated Deng
and co-travellers as restorationists and, despite his 50 years of
association with the PRC, Hinton stepped back from giving the
restoration a "progressive" tint (a number of articles by and
about Hinton have (re)appeared in MR recently).


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