In this essay, extracted from the book The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism, Carlos Garrido takes a detailed look at China’s socialist market economy and seeks to understand why so much of the Western left insistently misunderstands it. Carlos discusses the assorted tropes about China’s ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘totalitarianism’, as well as the … Continue reading China and the purity fetish of Western Marxism
You know, for someone who is supposed to be knowledgeable on Chinese socialism, it’s a pity the author didn’t reference the story of Ah Q. Ah Q’s mentality, or rather Dutch comfort is one of the pillars Western Marxist ineptitude draws from.
You know, for someone who is supposed to be knowledgeable on Chinese socialism, it’s a pity the author didn’t reference the story of Ah Q. Ah Q’s mentality, or rather Dutch comfort is one of the pillars Western Marxist ineptitude draws from.
for reference https://www.marxists.org/archive/lu-xun/1921/12/ah-q/