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  • i’d argue that decentralization is the primary issue, you see the same shit happening in china today, with local governments turning themselves into what are essentially little fiefdoms with overly redundant bureaucratic structures to dissipate responsibility and protect the powerful.

    something something fractal structures need to be pruned, like trees.


  • summerbl1ndtoGenZhouIs the Chinese Revolution being exploited?
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    3 years ago

    minqi li was a student during 89 and, like many fellow students, took the liberal -> maoist pipeline in the immediate aftermath (the other half went full fash). he now works at university of utah as an economics professor in the wallersteinian tradition and has published several books regarding china’s current and future roles in the capitalist world system.

    the tldr from him is that it’s not looking good and that the imperial core of the capitalist system was moving towards china pre-2019. this was in the process of causing a shitload of issues with regards to overproduction as well as the physical limitations of the biosphere that could very much have resulted in the final contradiction of capitalism.

    but then covid happened after his last book and maoist hardliners and their policies got a big boost domestically and it’s currently too early to tell in which direction the country will go from here, so who tf knows?