What is a socialist to make of China? – Part Two

Introductory Remarks for Part Two In the previous post, I sketched out a Marxist analysis of China and how to look at it in the grand scheme of things. In Part One I concentrated on issues related to economics, class, climate change, imperialism and foreign policy. My aim for that post was to illustrate that…

What is a socialist to make of China? – Part One

Introduction: The Poisoned Well of Discourse Nothing has caused more consternation, heated debate, and in general bad takes in our time than the discourse around the self-described People’s Republic of China. In the 21st century, it has assumed the role previously played by the USSR as the big bad “communist” superpower in Western—particularly American—imagination, only…