Re: [OPE] Class structure: China

thanks, dave and fred for these suggestions. i'll produce some comments on
where i got to, once i have finished all this reading!!
all of you: that was all really helpful, but if there are more comments i'm
always happy to listen.

michael

On 3 May 2011 03:19, Dave Zachariah <davez@kth.se> wrote:

> On 2011-05-02 01:51, Michael Webber wrote:
> >
> > finally, i want to emphasise the specificity of the term 'capitalist
> > state' for present day china. i mean by this that the commanding
> > heights of the economy are (i) capitalist corporations and (ii) owned
> > / controlled by the state. this is a little different from what we
> > might call 'the state in capitalist societies', whatever a capitalist
> > society is.
>
> If there ever was an appropriate application of the term 'state
> capitalism' this would be it.
>
> In addition to the general historical-materialist framework in the
> references I suggested I think Joel Andreas has written some interesting
> material on the changing class structure of China. Cf.
>
> Joel Andreas (2008), "Changing Colours in China", in New Left
> Review, New Left Review 54, Nov-Dec 2008.
>
> which is a response to the late Arrighi's last book. Andreas also
> appears to have written a book that I completely missed:
>
> Joel Andreas (2009), "Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural
> Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class", Stanford
> University Press.
>
> //Dave Z
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