Parsani
joined 2 years ago
Two articles re China.
One an excerpt from a book which sounds interesting even if it will be used to build another cardboard monster for Americans to be afraid of instead of learning anything. This one reminded me of the mechanisms which the CPC used during their revolutionary period to massage the market in their favor as detailed in Weber's book on How China Escaped Shock Therapy:
Zongyuan Zoe Liu on China's Sovereign Funds
https://www.pekingnology.com/p/zongyuan-zoe-liu-on-chinas-sovereign
And then an infuriating translated essay from Beijing Daily that is typical of Chinese scholars wanting to bend Marx to say exactly what they want in a way that should piss off anyone with even a cursory understanding of it. In summary: "Chinese private firms are not exploitative akshually. No I will not even feign to understand what produces surplus value in the circuit of capital. Exploiting labor is fine as long as you aren't doing colonialism, sweaty. We love our Randian entrepreneurs" :
Jiang Xiaojuan's passionate advocacy of private economy in Beijing Daily
https://www.pekingnology.com/p/jiang-xiaojuans-passionate-advocacy
"falling stars"
Lol okay
~~If the ancap clown becomes President and goes ahead with destroying all the Government department that he claims to (mostly social services),~~ i hope there will be riots.
These may not be exactly what you are looking for, but may be of interest:
This one is on my list to read:
Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China’s Development (1949-2020) by Wen Tiejun
And:
How China Escaped Shock Therapy The Market Reform Debate By Isabella M. Weber
While it focuses on the market reform debates, it has some really interesting historical information about economics in China before, during, and after the revolution.
Transit Oriented Development
Bourgeois: buying a hamsic shirt
Proletarian: painting a hamsic on a shirt
Fuck, I want a shirt. It's so funny
