The Perils of Borrowing Someone Else’s Spectacles
Intakes: Chuǎng's critique of Aufheben articles on China and Aufheben's response.
Capitalism under the Red Banner: Seventy Years of the People's Republic of China
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 7 2019 12:33
Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we reproduce an article which originally appeared in Communist Review 8 (January 1990), published by the ICT (or IBRP as it was then) in the aftermath of the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests.
Protests in HK: a talk with the 'Workers Group'
Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on Sep 12 2019 21:18
The following interview was made over internet during the month of August. Comrades from different countries – some Bad Kids of the World – made questions about the anti-extradition movement to the Workers Group, a proletarian collective based in Hong Kong. We want to understand how the mass protests relates to the broader context of class struggle in the region. The text is being published simultaneously in English, French and Portuguese.
Class Struggle in China
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 6 2019 13:26
The role of China in the imperialist pecking order has been covered many times on our website (leftcom.org). Here we deal with China’s evolution from a largely agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse which has also created the world’s largest working class – and what comes with that is, of course, simmering class conflict.
Hong Kong: Anarchists in the Resistance to the Extradition Bill
Submitted by R Totale on Jun 27 2019 20:55
An interview with Hong Kong anarchists involved in the movement against the new Extradition Bill. This interview was first posted by Crimethinc.
Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic - Maurice Meisner
Fantastic in-depth critical history of the failure of China's 'transition to socialism', analysing the degree to which it lived up to its egalitarian rhetoric as it navigated the uneasy relationships between democracy and bureaucracy, socialism and capitalism.
Tian An Men: Sanga Nokto en Pekino
Dominique Bari, konstanta korespondantino de la franca ĵurnalo l’Humanité en Ĉinio, dum la movado de la placo Tian An Men, rememorigas la hororan nokton.
Marximation
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jun 3 2019 23:47
Looking at one of the less orthodox ways of marking the 200th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx.
Amazon: A new business model better able to manage the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production
An attempt to understand the functioning of one the world's most powerful companies using marxist categories - explaining how Amazon manages to combine the functions of productive, comercial and finance capital. The intention is, of course, to try to work out the implications for class strugle...
The original content of the communist program is the obliteration of the individual as an economic subject, rights-holder, and agent of human history (Part I)
In this text, whose French translation appeared in Camatte’s book Bordiga et la Passion du Communisme and which is translated into English for the first time here, Amadeo Bordiga lays out a concrete vision of communist society as reconstructed from Marx’s fragmentary writings on the subject. Communist production, while following “a common and rational plan”, will as a joyful act constitute “its own reward”. However, to attain such a state of affairs, a revolutionary “dictatorship over consumption” will first be necessary according to Bordiga.
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