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
Even the SocialismForAll guy writes China off as being a capitalist state now. I’m no expert on China, but that seems like some black & white, purity fetish thinking on his part.
Even the SocialismForAll guy writes China off as being a capitalist state now. I’m no expert on China, but that seems like some black & white, purity fetish thinking on his part.