On 4/15/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Lear wrote: > > >On Friday, April 14, 2006 at 15:40:50 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: > >>... > >>I had Elizabeth Economy, a China expert at the Council on Foreign > >>Relations, on my radio show yesterday - I'll be posting the audio > >>later today. It was surprising to hear this bourgeois scholar express > >>alarm about massive inequality, growing protests, and ruinous > >>pollution. ... > > > >Are you surprised because you/we have grown so used to right-wing > >dominance of bourgeois discourse? Was she concerned for moral or > >pragmatic reasons? (I suppose I'll need to listen, eh?). > > I was surprised because establishment types rarely talk about the > downside of China, because they rarely worry about inequality or > environmental degradation. A couple of times she said that inequality > in China is worse than the US, in a way that suggested she thought > the US was already too unequal. Her concern sounded both moral and > pragmatic. > > Doug >
The New York Times (in which only "establishment types" are quoted) has been great at covering class struggle in China, though. Just reading the Times' China coverage, you'd think it might be a socialist paper! Its overage of France and Venezuela, in contrast, has been dreadful. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
