Re: [Marxism] Celia Hart: "Lula...is a class traitor"

["sartesian" <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

China is absolutely no threat to US capitalism.  Extrapolate current
growth rates and see if/when China ever overtakes the US.

Can't think of a more fragile, puffed up, explosive society than China
right now.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition"
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Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Marxism] Celia Hart: "Lula...is a class traitor"
> Affairs".
>
> We are dealing with essentially two different phenomena. One is the
threat
> to US hegemony posed by a growing Chinese economy and the other is how
to
> characterize Chinese society. Of course, in some ways they are
> inter-related. Through super-exploitation of its working class, China
has
> become a giant capitalist economy. But I am not sure that this means
that
> it is on the side of the angels. China's foreign policy, even when Mao
was
> alive, was not based on socialist principles but bourgeois
nationalism. If
> Nixon could go to China and cut deals over the heads of the
Vietnamese,
> what's to prevent China from throwing Cuba to the wolves if the price
was
> right?
>
>
>
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