Vijay Prashad did a very interesting lecture on China a few months ago on the CPUSA YouTube: https://youtu.be/8-m-DZHLNGs
I think we need to begin talking seriously about COVID-19 in world historic terms and understand what has just taken place. I'm up in Providence, RI just got declared the "Most Infected Place in the World." Meanwhile the remnants of the Socialist Camp really did something extremely different. Look, I'm not going to make believe everything is hunky-dory, China has problem. But between the trends around poverty reduction, literacy, and public health response to COVID, the CCP just got a real shot in the arm that is might be able to ride for a decade. If we end up going into a long depression as fallout from the various material conditions manifest in the past year, China's position in the passing lane as the largest economy on earth might be hyper-accelerated. Is that necessarily aligning with the Marxist schematic? Undeniably a debatable topic. But we aren't looking so hot over here either... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4321): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4321 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78827907/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
