Re: [Marxism] Exaggerating Chinese economic power

["Ruthless Critic of All that Exists" <ok.president+marxml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Marvin Gandall
<marvgandall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> While the contrasting opinions of the Washington Post's John Pomfret and of
> Fidel are worthy of consideration, the best guage of China's relative
> standing and influence is how the matter is viewed by the international
> bourgeoisie - the heads of global corporations, central bankers, large
> institutional investors, politicians, and their strategists - whose wealth
> and power is directly tied to the reliability of their assessments.

Why would we lay so much store by the int'l bourgeoisie's opinion?
Aren't the int'l bourgeoisie such utter idiots that they believe that
capitalism will last forever? If they are so wrong on such an
important question, why should they be considered wise in other
subsidiary matters?

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