I feel like I don’t hear much internal critique about China from the ML side of things - is this more of a ‘critical support’ posture or are people just generally more optimistic about long-term socialization of their market?

edit: if there are more reading materials that discuss this topic in-depth, I am very interested in recommendations

  • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Western Marxist-Leninists of the late 80s/early 90s operated on the assumption that China’s liberal reforms meant that it was abandoning Socialism in favor of Social Democracy

    When in reality their healthcare reforms were abandoning socialism for neoliberalism

    (You can argue about the utility of market mechanisms in some fields but healthcare was completely gutted)