On 7/3/21 6:42 AM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote:
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/century-communist-party-china-reform-and-opening-great-betrayal
<https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/century-communist-party-china-reform-and-opening-great-betrayal>
As Lenin put it in 1921: “We must not be afraid of the growth of the
petty bourgeoisie and small capital.
“What we must fear is protracted starvation, want and food shortage,
which create the danger that the working class will be utterly
exhausted and will give way to petty-bourgeois vacillation and
despair. This is a much more terrible prospect.”
Modern China has gone much further than the NEP, in the sense that
private property is not limited to “the petty bourgeoisie and small
capital”; there are some extremely wealthy individuals and companies
controlling vast sums of capital.
What a load of bullshit, as if the NEP had factories like Foxconn with
workers jumping to their death because of terrible working conditions.
To get an idea about what class relations are like in China, the best
place to start is not with a hack like Carlos Martinez or even Jeffrey
Sachs, whose defense of Assad makes him dubious to begin with as an
expert on class relations.
It is with Chinese documentary film-makers.
In trying to explain to my wife the importance of Wang Bing’s
tripartite, 9 hour documentary “West of the Tracks”, I described it
as the equivalent of a time machine transporting a video camera back
to 18^th century Britain and into the hands of someone like Thomas
Gray or William Blake—poets appalled by the rise of capitalism. In
1999 the 32-year-old film school graduate, went to Shenyang, a
heavily industrialized city, with a small rented DV camera in order
to capture a moment in time when the “iron rice bowl” would become a
thing of the past. While the film itself is about as unadorned as
the videos that I tend to make, their impact is overwhelming as
Chinese workers confront their imminent demise as benefactors of one
of the 20^th century’s most powerful revolutions. Now they were
becoming the equivalent of British self-sustaining small farmers
dispossessed by the enclosure acts.
https://louisproyect.org/2013/05/10/wang-bing-cinematic-bard-of-the-chinese-working-class-and-peasantry/
In fact, the Morning Star publishes the same kind of blather about Syria.
CELEBRATIONS were held in Damascus and other cities today as Syria
marked the 75th anniversary of its independence and the end of
French colonial rule.
President Bashar al-Assad warned that the country still faces the
threat of terrorism and a crippling US-imposed economic blockade
designed to undermine the Syrian government.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/syria-celebrates-75th-anniversary-independence-france
Morons.
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