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OverviewDoes China represent a non-capitalist alternative to neoliberal development models? Commentators on the left have offered sharply divergent assessments over the last two decades. A few still cling the old dream of market socialism, twinning efficiency with social justice. For most, however, China is proof that market reforms invariably yield dispossession, inequality, and capitalist restoration. Is the East Still Red? argues that both interpretations are wrong and exhibit a common failure to distinguish between market mechanisms and capitalist imperatives. Gary Blank situates the Chinese experience within broader Marxist debates on socio-historical transitions and primitive accumulation, highlighting the need to conceptualize capitalism as a unique system in which producers and appropriators depend on the market for their reproduction. Despite years of marketization, the mandarins in Beijing have not yet imposed full market dependence in industry and agriculture. He shows how the resistance of workers and peasants, the imperatives of party-state legitimacy, and the reproductive strategies of individual Communist officials and managers all act to perpetuate central aspects of a bureaucratic-collectivist system, in which direct producers and bureaucrats are effectively merged with the means of production. The People's Republic may be a non-capitalist market alternative, albeit one that is hardly edifying for socialists. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gary BlankPublisher: Collective Ink Imprint: Zero Books Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 21.90cm Weight: 0.172kg ISBN: 9781780997575ISBN 10: 1780997574 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 27 February 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationGary Blank is a PhD candidate in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics (LSE). He holds a Master's degree in international history from the LSE and a Master's degree in political science from York University (Toronto). He continues to research the experience of Chinese market reforms and the theory of socialist/capitalist transition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |