*China: A Semi-Colony, an “Imperialism in Formation” or an Imperialist
Power?*
*/On the debate in the Argentinean Partido Obrero about the class
character of China and Russia/*
/An Essay (with 6 Tables) by Michael Pröbsting, RCIT, 31 March 2026/
https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/the-china-debate-in-the-argentinean-partido-obrero/
*/Contents/*
*Introduction*
*I. The three positions in the PO debate*
*China is rather a semi-colonial than an imperialist state (Pablo Heller)*
*China is an “imperialism in formation” (Pablo Giachello)*
*China is an imperialism power (Luis Brunetto)*
*II. Brief summary of the Marxist analysis of China’s and Russia’s class
character*
*III. The heavy burden of PO’s theoretical legacy*
*The catastrophic theory of “catastrophism”*
*Different types of imperialist states*
*State theory, Stalinist states and the class character of the Stalinist
bureaucracy*
*Stalinist bureaucracy and capitalist restoration*
*The CPC and the /political guanxi networks/*
*Capitalist restoration as an endogenous or an exogenous process?*
*IV. Consequences for program and tactics*
*Revolutionary defeatism or social-imperialist defence of China and Russia?*
*The shameful collaboration with the Stalinist OKП*
*Summary*
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