In the following article, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez responds to a recent Jacobin book review which presents China’s economic rise as a simple story of “brutal exploitation” indistinguishable from the horrors of Britain’s industrial revolution. While not doubting the hardships described in the book under review, Carlos argues that Jacobin’s framing is ahistorical and … Continue reading Pure socialism is pure idealism: a reply to Jacobin on China