Tag: China
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.
Marxism and Imperialism
Part II of a two-part dialogue between Critical China Scholars and Spectre
China and the U.S. Left
Part 1 in a dialogue between Critical China Scholars and Spectre editors.
Lessons from Hong Kong’s Fight for Democracy
An anonymous activist from Hong Kong draws lessons from the recent protests and explains what’s changed since the enactment of the draconian National Security Law.
Roundtable on China
Lausan and Critical China Scholars discuss how to effectively articulate a leftist, internationalist framework of solidarity in the face of mounting US-China tensions.
Keep the Streets: Coup, Crisis, and Capital in Myanmar
Geoffrey Aung discusses this month’s coup in Myanmar, the class composition of popular resistance, and how these events fit into a longer trajectory of capitalist transition.
Why China Isn’t Capitalist (Despite the Pink Ferraris)
Richard Smith argues, contra Eli Friedman, that China is not capitalist by a long shot.
Under China’s Thumb
Two members of Lausan explain how workers are organizing in Hong Kong in the face of the ferocious crackdown by the Chinese government.
A Capitalist Virus against Global Solidarity
Robert Cuffy on global solidarity against police repression