Tag: China
One Should Not Camouflage Capitalist and Imperialist China as “Socialist”
Replying to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster, Michael Pröbsting argues that the People’s Republic of China is both capitalist and imperialist.
A Tale of Two Ports
Phil Neel challenges the view of China as a challenger to US hegemony, arguing that hegemony produces the turbulent politics read as a sign of its demise.
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?
“Bidenomics” in the International Context
This is the first in a series of articles providing a snapshot of the geopolitical moment from a Marxist perspective. Thomas Hummel analyzes the shift toward escalating conflict between the U.S. and China, and examines the possible outcomes in terms of the global balance of power, the possibilities or difficulties for working class organizing, and the chances of inter-imperialist war. Over the course of the series, Hummel will examine whether this shift is likely to be the basis of a new regime of accumulation or a short blip on the radar—that is, an attempt to engineer something for which there is no material basis in reality.
Resisting Genocide: The Uyghur Struggle for Justice
Ashley Smith interviews Uyghur activist and human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat on the Chinese state’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjang and beyond.
From Taiwan to Ukraine
Wen Liu and Brian Hioe explain how the struggle for self-determination in Ukraine can shed light on the Taiwanese struggle against China’s ongoing colonial domination.
Stop Russia’s War on Ukraine!
Neither Washington, nor Moscow, but the working class worldwide!
Caught Between the Two Superpowers
How should the international left relate to Taiwan, a country caught between two superpowers?
What Was Chinese Trotskyism?
Taking Wang Fanxi’s analysis of Chinese Trotskyism as his point of departure, Promise Li argues that recovering dissident Marxisms is essential for the contemporary project of challenging bureaucratic cooptation of working-class struggles.