It's sad that capitalists (and some anti-China marxists) still think this despite the fact that markets have existed in nearly all pre capitalist societies since the advent of agriculture. It's because they want to believe that capitalism is a "natural" outgrowth of markets being freed from the bonds of feudalism rather than a change in the social relations of laborers and property owners. also they just refuse to understand imperialism and capitalist encirclement, and that the transition from capitalism to communism in China is being managed by a ruling socialist party rather than simply being abolished overnight, which would destabilize and jeopardize the future of the entire chinese socialist project.
:very-smart: folks gotta read ellen meiksins "Origin of Capitalism"
I'm still a relatively baby socialist but when I got through Graeber's Debt and read the part where he said that markets and capitalism are actually not only not necessarily found together but are actually completely antithetical (as well as the parts about China historically that ring true to this day), I was like "huh, maybe I am a Dengist"
It's sad that capitalists (and some anti-China marxists) still think this despite the fact that markets have existed in nearly all pre capitalist societies since the advent of agriculture. It's because they want to believe that capitalism is a "natural" outgrowth of markets being freed from the bonds of feudalism rather than a change in the social relations of laborers and property owners. also they just refuse to understand imperialism and capitalist encirclement, and that the transition from capitalism to communism in China is being managed by a ruling socialist party rather than simply being abolished overnight, which would destabilize and jeopardize the future of the entire chinese socialist project.
:very-smart: folks gotta read ellen meiksins "Origin of Capitalism"
I'm still a relatively baby socialist but when I got through Graeber's Debt and read the part where he said that markets and capitalism are actually not only not necessarily found together but are actually completely antithetical (as well as the parts about China historically that ring true to this day), I was like "huh, maybe I am a Dengist"
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