tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34598853.post2719161289573945131..comments2023-12-30T01:47:45.604-08:00Comments on servethepeople: Taxi Strike in ChongqingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34598853.post-13980079829821259012008-12-19T21:02:00.000-08:002008-12-19T21:02:00.000-08:00As well as the contradiction between workers and t...As well as the contradiction between workers and the owners / managers of industry run on capitalist profit lines ,is there at the national level in China a contradiction between the oppressed classes and the capitalist "profit in command " system as a whole, particularly when these classes as well as much industry is at the beck and call of imperialist owners ?<BR/> (the vast majority constituting "The People ")<BR/><BR/>Within that People The contradiction between town and country is growing as the GINI index between rich and the peasantry shows.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The contradiction between the people between city and the poor countryside In China will not be resolved by an industrial struggle for 'workers control " in individual factories in a struggle by "licensed" workers in the city factories struggling with socialist managers ,in a sort of "Trotskyite "struggle for factory democracy , 'workers control ',in order to reform state bureaucrats.<BR/> <BR/>Or by this or that group of individual contract drivers of taxis fighting for a better rate.<BR/><BR/>These management practices implemented are the policy of the state .<BR/><BR/>So ,what is the principal contradiction to be resolved in China today that will drive historical development forward?<BR/><BR/>A Hukou or pass system is used to divide the working class and peasantry.<BR/><BR/>10s of millions of "casual " proletariat "peasants "under the "Hukou "pass system ,are now being sacked from the many thousands of foreign owned factories being shut down and being sent back to the country as an unemployed "peasantry " to a non future ,without communes ,of rural idiocy and poverty.<BR/><BR/>They can label a proletarian worker a "peasant " but with a scientific class analysis by these 'peasants " themselves examining practice ,they might persuade themselves that they are now a proletariat with nothing to lose ,not even the right to a worker label. <BR/><BR/>Future control and ownership of the means of production and the question of national independence in China as everywhere are class question and will be fought out as a class questions.<BR/><BR/>If the Chinese export of wealth driven economy continues to implode revolution might be put pack on the agenda real soon.<BR/><BR/>If so, a new revolution in China will again be from the countryside encircling the cities , waged too now not just by peasants but by poor communist workers ,angry after being robbed and being discarded and expelled as trash with no "workers "rights ,by capitalists utilising the hukou pass system of class designation.<BR/><BR/><BR/>They will surely build a party to lead them in an alliance with the poor peasantry and city workers.<BR/><BR/>In the first revolution an industrial proletariat in the countryside was nearly as scarce as hens teeth <BR/><BR/>We too should make a class analysis, even if the Chinese party has its own different labels and categories and Hukou passes for what constitutes working class.<BR/><BR/>Experience from the cultural revolution , different political lines on the working class:<BR/><BR/> The Trotskyists are left- sounding critics of Mao and socialism in general who superficially seek to advance the cause of industrial workers. <BR/>This is demonstrated by the Trotskyists’ ahistorical approach, but it is also shown by their lack of concern for the division between city and country. Leslie Evans criticizes the freeze and relative lowering of urban wages that occurred while Mao was alive without ever explaining that urban/rural differences have to be narrowed to eliminate classes. <BR/>.. but on the other hand, their apparent concern for urban workers would contribute to urban/rural inequality and hence classes and bureaucracy, if given a chance in policy implementation.<BR/><BR/>http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/countries/china/pecc88/politics.html<BR/><BR/>And of course similar policies were implemented.And the contradiction between town and country grew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com