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Vol. 71/No. 22      June 4, 2007

 
Letters
 
Is China a workers state?
In the Dec. 25, 2006, Militant, China is peculiarly labeled a workers state. As explained superbly, the word profit is misleading because the economic apparatus of China is different from that of the capitalist: “The majority of basic industry inside China today is state-owned” and rather than capitalists appropriating the surplus value, that surplus value “goes to the state” where it’s “apportioned by the ruling bureaucracy.”

Indubitably, the Militant understands a requisite in the construction of socialist society is that economy and public policy must be subordinated to the control of the masses. Without this, socialism is not; communism will never be.

“The bureaucratic ruling caste is motivated by the maintenance, and … expansion, of its privileged position in society,” the December 25 article says. In a world ripe for socialism, the Chinese bureaucracy “is not historically necessary.”

The Chinese bureaucracy has no interest in socialism. It will never hesitate to resort to “repressive measures” as needed, and further politically alienate those it exploits, especially when the exploited protrude their sights from their own domination to their own emancipation. In regard to the latter, such “socialist consciousness” of the masses, which once challenged the bureaucracy, does not exist anymore as stated in the Dec. 18, 2006, issue.

How then can they be graciously called a workers state?

Christopher Preciado
San Antonio, Texas
 
 
Related articles:
China: A deformed workers state  
 
 
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