China's new Marxist left?

["michael a. lebowitz" <mlebowit@xxxxxx>]

Steve comments:
This is ironical, right?

> --nope, jonathan is right, that is
> exactly what michael saw and heard.

I heard and saw the same time and again in the Marxist journals and
conferences.

In fact, I sat in on a meeting of the editorial board of the now

defunct (I think?) magazine of the Marxist left in China (whose name
now

escapes me, Jonathan?). The editors were responding exactly to the

argument within Chinese mainstream marxism that

captialists are now workers who produce value and
therefore

belong in the Communist Party. The edition was being put out to
refute this idea.

        I think that journal was called "Pursuit of Truth" and no longer exists. On the other hand, there must be currents within currents in China. Eg., the paper I gave at the Beijing Conference talked about how commodity exchange (while not to be identified with capitalism) creates conditions for the restoration of capitalism because of the nature of people produced under these relations and that only the conscious creation of new social relations, the invading communist society from below, could check this.(I didn't mention China but it was clear what I was talking about.) I learned recently that the paper was translated and published in September in the first issue of a new journal, the journal of the Shanghai School of Economics. Somebody must want to discuss these questions.
        in solidarity,
         michael

Michael A. Lebowitz

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