China's Path to Development Against Neoliberalism

Ali Kadri

1. From Ironclad to Discreet Rule of the Proletariat¶

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China is wholly locked with US imperialism in a struggle for existence. China’s rise shatters the power image of the US, and by implication its dominant ideas. One says that China is literally caught in a struggle for existence because there is a worrisome idea that lurks in the shadows of class analysis, especially at this juncture of imperialism unopposed by revolutionary ideology.

5. From Discreet to Ironclad Dictatorship of the Proletariat¶

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Value relations turn into waste relations, the ruling class becomes the wasting class and the working class becomes the wasted class.

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Not a single Keynesian measure works if it does not chop surplus value from the very lives of the ex-colonised.

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For capital and its totality of social production, any improvement in living standards in the hinterland or an increase in the power of China would erode the foundation of surplus value creation. These would also curtail the power the US deploys to organise production and to snatch value or transfer value through finance to the centre. Correspondingly, China hinders two operations of imperialism, the concentration and centralisation of capital.

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capital is by definition a falsity propped by the dividedness of the working class. Capital bereft of its labour process and wage system is a mirage.

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China’s advance may denude the lies of capital, but without broadly-based revolutionary consciousness and organisation, the planetary descent is nothing short of inexorable.