This is a flashback to something I read half a century ago. Lenin wrote about Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism. In a nutshell: capitalists seek new opportunities to monopolize the means of production and adventure abroad for new opportunities to employ capital. Mao-Tse-Dung was grateful for whatever help the Soviet Union gave him before he took over in China. Afterwards he distanced himself from Leninism and Stalinism as he tried to figure out how to adapt a communist revolution to an agrarian society. Mao is dead. A new generation has risen and the casual western observer might conclude that modern China has rejected communism. Technically the only thing non-Marxist about the Chinese (Russian, Cuban, and the rest) approach is the intervention of the state. Otherwise, the Chinese support of the rise of a capitalist class and development of a capitalistic economy is consistent with a Marxist scenario. Now according to at least Lenin’s script that Chinese capitalistic economy is itself engaging in economic imperialism.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:29 +0000
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