Why the Western left misreads China: capitalism, imperialism, and the socialist difference - Friends of Socialist China
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In the following article, Karim Pourhamzavi – an Iranian lecturer specialising in global political economy and West Asian and North African politics at Beijing Foreign Studies University – takes aim at a strand of Western left thinking that treats Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and US capitalism as equivalent. Drawing on the history of capitalism, imperialism … Continue reading Why the Western left misreads China: capitalism, imperialism, and the socialist difference

In the following article, Karim Pourhamzavi – an Iranian lecturer specialising in global political economy and West Asian and North African politics at Beijing Foreign Studies University – takes aim at a strand of Western left thinking that treats Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and US capitalism as equivalent. Drawing on the history of capitalism, imperialism …

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  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    15 minutes ago

    If the people have no control over who runs the State…then the State does not answer to the people.

    And if the State does not answer to the people…then the people do not own the means of production.

    So, what you have in China, is an example of the bourgeoisie taking complete control over the State.