Author: Ralf Ruckus
China
China’s Other Crisis
The People’s Republic of China has been hit by capitalism’s historical tendency toward fertility decline, a result of both increasing economic burdens on the proletariat and women’s resistance. So far, women have withstood the pressures from the Chinese Communist Party regime to give up their birth strike and bear more children.
Ralf Ruckus
November 11, 2025
Anti-capitalism
What Everyone on the Left Should Know about Taiwan (at the Minimum)
Ralf Ruckus gives a historical primer for leftists interested in a critique of Taiwan’s capitalism and the nationalist claims coming from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Ralf Ruckus
June 17, 2025
Anti-capitalism
Review of China in Global Capitalism
Ralf Ruckus reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism. How does China’s transition to capitalism affect anti-imperial strategies on the left?
Ralf Ruckus
September 9, 2024