Jim Devine it's more of a matter of the monopolies and the state forming a unified bloc. After all, the CP of China is a rich-person's club. (They should get credit for being embarrassed by this fact.)
^^^^ CB: No it's the state dominating the corporations. And the vast majority of CP members not heading corporations, nor the corporate heads as party members. ^^^ BTW, there have been other cases of corporatist capitalism, where the political sphere is dominated by a single authoritarian political party that purports to combine and represent the interests of capital and labor, while suppressing the independent organization of the latter. It was a form of capitalism that prevailed in some countries in western and central Europe during the 1930s. ^^^ CB: China is not a case of corporatist capitalism. A fundamental difference between China and Germany , for example, is that the Nazis had an ideology of militarism, imperialism, world conquest and white supremacy; and launched a war killing 50 million people; Waging war was an essential component of Lenin's definition of imperialism/finance capital; and white supremacy a basic aspect of capitalism and imperialism; that is the complete antagonistic opposite of China under the CP. You missed that enormous , qualitative difference between the two. You must have one eye closed. Not only that, the Chinese CP's policies have brought tens of millions, maybe 100's of millions of people out of poverty, by developing the forces of production of a feudal- like country very rapidly. This demonstrates that the CP is not just purporting to but in fact is representing the interests of the working class masses. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
