China is a single-party state ruled by a Communist Party. At the same time, it has become the leading actor of the global market economy, with the usual trappings of capitalism - millionaires, stock exchanges, labour exploitation, etc.
In the face of such contradictions, how might one even consider China as being capable of furthering any genuinely leftist strategy at all? > > Le 15 janv. 2021 à 21:44, Dmytri Kleiner <d...@telekommunisten.net> a écrit : > > > For what reason do you wish to evaluate China? Do they need to fulfill some > doctrinaire and idealist definition of communism such that we don't denounce > them and deny their accomplishments? > > The CPC has many millions of well-informed members. What does our > ill-informed opinion matter? > > And further, what does this evaluation of China have to do with a thread > about dialogical internationalism and a strategy for the left in our > countries? > > This seems like a derailment of the thread, more likely to trigger white rage > and yellow peril concern trolling, then help imagine a viable left strategy. > > >> On 2021-01-15 21:02, Joseph Rabie wrote: >> A question for Dmytri: >> Is China a truly Communist country, and if so, what are the markers of this? > > -- > Dmytri Kleiner > @dmytri # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
