Steve wrote:
>not every instance of labor organizing in Chinese SOEs is dominated
>by neo-liberal agendas. In this instance, the main people involved in
>helping workers are Maoists
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>The Party either ignores them or directly participates in
>their repression and then liberal organizations like HRW are able to claim
>them as part of their own agenda. The struggles are real nonetheless, are
>closely interrelated with the problem of the reform agenda and ideology
>itself, and if the Marxist left abroad doesn't want to claim them,
>liberals will surely benefit from that decision.
How large is the number of such Maoist activists? Do they have a
political connection with rural peasants whose living conditions have
deteriorated drastically?
Yoshie
