On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 12:37 PM, Charlie wrote: > > China today is the first capitalist country to carry out most of its > industrialization after a socialist period. Yes, that affects the form of > Chinese capitalism. It is more vicious and more repressive than classic > bourgeois democracies. > > > > > ( #window-238195412 ) >
It’s true that one-party states tend to be more repressive than the ruling duopolies in the most developed capitalist states, with the qualifier that the latter can become equally vicious and even morph into fascist dictatorships when the system is seriously threatened from within or without. Short of that, the long history of repression against militant trade unions, left-wing parties, and dissenting movements such as the one speaking out on behalf of Palestine today shouldn’t be understated. The comparative lack of mass action in China, however, has less to do with a more repressive state apparatus than with what surveys have shown to be a higher level of popular satisfaction with the political leadership and system than in the bourgeois democracies. This result is not surprising since working class living standards have risen sharply in China while having stagnated or fallen in the West in recent decades. How to characterize the Chinese state (and USSR before it) has always been contested and based on differing conceptions of socialism and capitalism, but we can agree on the need to support working class struggles for democratic rights wherever they occur. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30429): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30429 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106146595/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
