Re: <nettime> The Left Needs a New Strategy

[Dmytri Kleiner <dk@telekommunisten.net>]

On 2021-01-16 02:22, Joseph Rabie wrote:

> China is a single-party state ruled by a Communist Party.

I'm sure that the Chinese workers know this, so not sure why you're 
telling us. If you are interested in how the Chinese government works, 
Daniel A Bell is interesting, for example: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OGjUCbiDY


> At the same time, it has become the leading actor of the global market 
> economy,
> with the usual trappings of capitalism - millionaires, stock
> exchanges, labour exploitation, etc.

So, like the USA, Canada, Germany and the many other countries, then.


> In the face of such contradictions, how might one even consider China
> as being capable of furthering any genuinely leftist strategy at all?

Because it has mobilized and militant workers, which is the only thing 
that makes a left strategy possible anywhere.

As already stated, the strategy I support is fighting to improve the 
conditions of the people in our countries and fighting to prevent our 
countries from engaging in aggression abroad.

Judging China is not a part of his strategy, and should not be, because 
it's a bad strategy. We should trust the Chinese workers to resolve 
their contradictions, and focus on our own rather than allowing our 
elite to propagandize into thinking they are our enemies.


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Dmytri Kleiner
@dmytri
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