On China, economic reform, and the future.
While Russia famously succumbed to destructive neoliberal "shock therapy", China managed to avoid it. How and why? Isabella Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy, tells us about China's opting for gradual reform instead.
What did reform mean for understandings of socialism? Do communists make the best capitalists? And is the pursuit of growth and development at any cost China's own version of the End of History?
/312/ Consolation-Prize Marxism & the Bunga-Bunga State ft. Dylan Riley
Excerpt: /311/ Reading Club: The Precariat
Excerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?
/309/ Sack of Potatoes ft. Anton Jäger
Excerpt: /308/ A Balance-Sheet of the Left
Excerpt: /307/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Dec 2022)
Excerpt: /306/ Reading Club: AI Capitalism
/305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)
Excerpt: /302/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Nov 2022)
Excerpt: /301/ Reading Club: Neo-Feudalism
/300/ Bunga at the End of the World
/299/ Micropower & Transcendence in Brazil (Bungazão 2022) ft. Miguel Lago
/298/ Working For Freedom ft. Alex Gourevitch
/297/ Bungazão 2022 (Clean & Godly) ft. Benjamin Fogel
Excerpt: /296/ Last-Gasp Neoliberalism (Trussonomics)
Excerpt: /295/ Aufhebonus Bonus: October
Excerpt: /294/ Reading Club: Conspiracy Theory
Excerpt: /293/ Goodbye 20th Century (RIP Gorby)
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