Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Whither China?

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  • @ColorMatching
    @ColorMatching 3 роки тому +86

    David, please, for the love of God, buy a quality microphone.

    • @zoomzoom3950
      @zoomzoom3950 3 роки тому +1

      yes, buy more Capitalist products and services!

    • @nochepatada
      @nochepatada 3 роки тому +2

      This can be watched at 1.25x speed and it still works

    • @ColorMatching
      @ColorMatching 3 роки тому +18

      @@zoomzoom3950 don't be daft

    • @zoomzoom3950
      @zoomzoom3950 3 роки тому +1

      @@ColorMatching you too! you're a consumer of capitalist products and services.
      As a capitalist, I thank you for your financial support.
      Keep pushing for climate change legislation, I'm making money from it.
      Keep pushing for higher minimum wages, I'm making money from it.
      I ❤️ Capitalism.

    • @borisnegrarosa9113
      @borisnegrarosa9113 3 роки тому +7

      @@zoomzoom3950 Was first Soviet satellite a capitalist product too?

  • @dannyboy8850
    @dannyboy8850 3 роки тому +19

    David thanks for the quick overview of the evolution of Chinese economy. In my view it is moving towards the right direction and it is going through a continuous refinement which will end in a much better version of the western economy today. 👍👍👍

  • @gerarddalbon
    @gerarddalbon 3 роки тому +19

    Althusser: "There is no such thing as a socialist mode of production; socialism is a contest between co-existing elements of the capitalist and communist modes of production."

    • @user-xk6xb4br9r
      @user-xk6xb4br9r 3 роки тому +1

      He killed his wife

    • @user-xk6xb4br9r
      @user-xk6xb4br9r 3 роки тому

      @@degamispoudegamis sorry that was insensitive

    • @EclecticSceptic
      @EclecticSceptic 3 роки тому +4

      @@user-xk6xb4br9r To quote Paul Cockshott 'even homicidal maniacs can say something interesting sometimes'.

  • @jgwizo
    @jgwizo 3 роки тому +17

    China scientists have found a way to convert CO2 to starch like how CO2 is changed to stsrch in plants. Congratulations to human achievement

  • @roblanchi5159
    @roblanchi5159 3 роки тому +3

    A special thank you to David Harvey and your great analysis.

  • @juliahenriques210
    @juliahenriques210 3 роки тому +1

    I don't know if you'll read this, professor, but if you do, consider this: in the long durée the main drive for China is self-determination. The last 200 years have seen China toppled from its natural position as a superpower, but this has happened before. This new Chinese reascension is fully pragmatic. Statism has been their basis, just as socialism and capitalism have been their tools. This is a radical statement: in China both socialism and capitalism are State policies, and are altered as the need arises. That's what we're seeing now, the party trying to make adjustments and remain in control in the face of the natural shift of power to capitalist elites. When the party opened the economy and embraced capitalism as a tool, it was confident in its own ability to deal with all the inevitable externalities, and now begins the first real test of that assumption.

  • @sethmidkiff5159
    @sethmidkiff5159 3 роки тому +11

    Great episode! I agree that mic quality is a bit of a distraction, but the content is top quality

  • @dontaskmewhy100
    @dontaskmewhy100 3 роки тому +14

    Billionnaire in China dont have much political power. CCP holds the ultimate and undisputed power.
    Actually the CCP has spent huge resources on dealing with the geographic disparity in the last decade or so to very positive effect.
    Hopefully you will come to China again soon.
    The majority of Chinese has high confidence on the CCP and the government.

  • @m.rebman7221
    @m.rebman7221 3 роки тому +6

    Good assessment of the current situation in China. Your presentation points out what many of us here have surmised; to wit, that China is not a capitalist state, but one which has unlocked entrepreneurship and capital accumulation to serve the as yet unmet goal of a richer, more materially developed socialist state. This goal can only be accomplished by a an authoritarian regime that understands where it is going and maintains at least the necessary minimum probity to do so.

  • @dontaskmewhy100
    @dontaskmewhy100 3 роки тому +3

    邓小平在几十年前说过一句广为人知的话,“让一部分人先富起来,”但有些人只记得这前半句,只引用到逗号就结束了。这句话的后半句是,“逐步达到共同富裕。”
    Deng Xiaoping said a well-known saying a few decades ago, "Let some people get rich first," but some people only remember the first half of the sentence, and it ends with a comma. The second half of this sentence is, "Gradually achieve common prosperity."

    • @dontaskmewhy100
      @dontaskmewhy100 3 роки тому

      @niles stone david harvey老师很不错了,能看长远,正如Arrighi说,不能只看现在。
      Salute to Giovanno Arrighi and A G Frank.

  • @ibukunogunfeitimi5645
    @ibukunogunfeitimi5645 3 роки тому +6

    Most importantly, dealing with inequality globally is a major challenge, and introducing reforms, must be managed effectively for transformation to be a credible approach (IP).
    Opening up competition is a credible solution likely to increase productivity effectively? D@W highlighted Socialism and Capitalism failures, and recommend to watch the video.
    We (Yorubà Nation) set out to win more hearts and minds - Human Social-Capital Innovation embedded in absolute quality of management of things - productivity gap closed effectively.

  • @prole1917
    @prole1917 3 роки тому +18

    The Chinese system represents the most advanced and practical application of Marxism that currently exists

    • @C5518-p5s
      @C5518-p5s 3 роки тому +1

      It would have been cool to see the USSR survive, the rifts in the Sino-Soviet split heal, and leaders and thinkers in both states go head to head in a friendly competition... what configurations and innovations in governance we could have seen. Alas! Let's hope China nails it this century!

    • @kwakkers68
      @kwakkers68 3 роки тому +1

      @@C5518-p5s Competition? Cooperation is key. Ironically, what we're seeing now!

    • @kwakkers68
      @kwakkers68 3 роки тому

      @NIC Lee I agree, my point was made in reference to the 'friendly competition' point above (between China, and Russia).

  • @Jay...777
    @Jay...777 3 роки тому +7

    China has state industries and more importantly state banks. It would be good to see the banks become banks for the people.

  • @jared5015
    @jared5015 3 роки тому +13

    I wouldn't use the word "draconian" to describe attempts at egalitarian wealth distribution lol

    • @jared5015
      @jared5015 3 роки тому +6

      Nor would I use the word egalitarian to describe China's low productive levels before reform. Having a dialectical perspective means acknowledging those conditions as necessarily the premise of submission to capital for the sake of technology and a chance to compete on the world market.

    • @jared5015
      @jared5015 3 роки тому

      It's like looking at only one side of an equation. Is the whole of the working class in an "egalitarian" state if looked at alone in their uniform insecurity and poverty?

  • @tomvobbe9538
    @tomvobbe9538 3 роки тому +5

    I'm quite skeptical of the Chinese system, but it would be incredibly arragont to dismiss it outright without a much deeper understanding of it.

  • @patrickmazza7055
    @patrickmazza7055 3 роки тому

    I think the growth slowdown combined with the popular powderkeg you call out is driving this change. Pressure from the US through trade wars plus surreptitiously messing around internally, notably in Hong Kong, is adding to the pressure.

  • @fvalemus5377
    @fvalemus5377 2 роки тому

    This is a good indicator of govt that listens to its people, the concerns and address it.
    Changes are painful, and not everyone will like it, but it is needed.
    Unlike in the United States of Amnesia.

  • @i8dacookies890
    @i8dacookies890 3 роки тому +7

    You really need to up that audio quality.

    • @i8dacookies890
      @i8dacookies890 3 роки тому

      @niles stone You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

  • @joannezhou5354
    @joannezhou5354 3 роки тому +4

    Thanks for the deep insight analysis. You see the big picture. Everything you said makes sense to me.

  • @elizabethtaylor9085
    @elizabethtaylor9085 3 роки тому

    elizabeth taylor usa. this is SO GOOD AND SO HELPFUL THANK YOU! also i agree with pevious get a really good microphone.

  • @thefunbuns1
    @thefunbuns1 3 роки тому +18

    Finally catching onto SWCC and the brilliance of their long term plans in developing their country and subverting capitalism, eh?

    • @SkepticallySecular
      @SkepticallySecular 3 роки тому +3

      Imagine believing 4d chess bullshit

    • @thefunbuns1
      @thefunbuns1 3 роки тому +6

      @@SkepticallySecular imagine not believing the CPC's long term plans when they continuously meet goal after successive goal on their roadmap

    • @SkepticallySecular
      @SkepticallySecular 3 роки тому +3

      @@thefunbuns1 Successive goals like giving the fascist duterte free guns and disrespecting the Philippines. Successful plans like being Israel's 2nd largest trading partner

  • @PazLeBon
    @PazLeBon 3 роки тому +10

    Id love China to relly get on top of equality and set an example to the west

    • @100Mmore
      @100Mmore 3 роки тому +1

      Economic development is more important, and much more consequential.

    • @adamiskandar5107
      @adamiskandar5107 3 роки тому +7

      @@100Mmore Up to a point, yes. China has reached that point and is choosing a path different from the West because following the same path and expecting different results is insanity.

    • @100Mmore
      @100Mmore 3 роки тому

      @@adamiskandar5107 No they have not, they have the same GDP per capita as Mexico. China is not a developed country just yet, but very soon.

    • @EnriqueVivancoH
      @EnriqueVivancoH 3 роки тому

      @@100Mmore go to learn about PPP

  • @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832
    @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832 3 роки тому +7

    *Waves hand*
    You will feed the algorithm

    • @sethmidkiff5159
      @sethmidkiff5159 3 роки тому

      I see Darth jar jar in the comments all the time now. Didn't know sith lords like marxist podcasts and video essays too

  • @liamodonoghue7225
    @liamodonoghue7225 3 роки тому

    Me listening at 8am: "Wow, really gotta check out this book 'Aerosmith in Beijing', sounds awesome!"

  • @joziepozie5178
    @joziepozie5178 3 роки тому +5

    Xi jinping pushes the socialist button the musical

  • @wenkeadam362
    @wenkeadam362 3 роки тому +3

    Yes! Please get a better microphone. I love your videos but suffer with the sound...

  • @lukuanvx
    @lukuanvx 3 роки тому +1

    Other than the common wealth, I think Xi would like to see a market capitalism that is more competitive in leading technologies that allow the Chinese to climb the value chain without the fear of being choked by the USA. In another word, he would like to see China’s small business entrepreneurs to have a chance to grow in order to pursue the international markets (i.e., earning foreigners’ money) rather than the internal markets (earning Chinese’s money). Is that so difficult to understand? On the after-school enrichment program, I personally benefitted when I was in high school through taking the chemistry course. I believe that a good teacher will help the student to learn the subject in a systematic way. I think Xi should invite the best teacher in each category (chemistry, physics, etc.) to make the lecture series and make them available to every student. The teachers in the class room can spend more time on problem solving and laboratory sessions. I think that it will help the non-genius type of students to move up one notch.

  • @anandanganesan8240
    @anandanganesan8240 3 роки тому +3

    Great analysis. However, as Prof. Harvey told it is n experiment by CPC. No one had ever travelled in the path. Yet until a better way is found, we can hope that the measures of CPC yield results in achieving an egalitarian society

    • @spadeysay6846
      @spadeysay6846 3 роки тому +1

      Like so many other matters, China is conducting experiments and tests of this latest idea for common prosperity. Given adequate time to test them out, what worked will be adopted and what did not worked with be jettisoned.

  • @海狸-m8v
    @海狸-m8v 3 роки тому

    Most of these new changes David mentioned focus on young labors and children.
    Also, there're new laws to allow 3 children per family passed around the same time.
    These new laws all came right after China conduct its 7th population census, and the census data release has been delayed for a month, rising suspicious that official is trying to alter it because it looks bad. China's population rate has been decline rapidly since 2017. There are rumors stated that China's population growth has plunged so hard (probably reaching 0) in 2021, that government officials realized they should give labors some room to breath, so they can have time and energy to reproduce, or China will starting to facing labor shortage problem soon.
    Unlike other industrial countries like Japan or US, China still has a huge labor intensive industry, and has no reliable source of foreign labor, labor shortage would actually cripple the economy, capital expansion will stop at that point.
    These changes Chinese government bring focus more on delaying a crisis than "focus on the aspect of living". Also, most of them are ineffective at this point in term of rising the population, because rising a child is a huge sacrifice in personal time and wealth, minor changes just wouldn't cut it.

  • @prisonerofthesun3531
    @prisonerofthesun3531 3 роки тому

    Amazing

  • @m.rebman7221
    @m.rebman7221 3 роки тому +1

    A final remark about posting comments. By all means, do as you wish within the boundary of acceptable licence. But I think many of you here are being, shall we say, “sucked in” by trolls who need us more than we need them. After all, we affirm their existence through discourse with them. Best, rather, to take the advice of the transcendental meditator: “If you resist, they shall persist.” Since there is no need to resist ranting, it follows there will be need for it to persist. 😎

  • @burden9809
    @burden9809 3 роки тому

    RANKED CHOICE VOTING 🗳 NOW!

  • @BraveHelios
    @BraveHelios 3 роки тому

    Can someone please speak about what went wrong in Venezuela? I just read that 3/4 of all Venezuelans live in extreme poverty. Weren't they heading to some form of socialist society? What can we learn from what they did wrong? How does it compare to the Scandinavian or Nordic model of democratic socialism?

  • @tomvobbe9538
    @tomvobbe9538 3 роки тому +4

    The videogame ban was a good thing. Many children become addicted to videogames and TV at an early age, it's not healthy.

    • @KomradeKlonopin
      @KomradeKlonopin 3 роки тому +2

      Agreed. I wasted literally thousands of hours on video games as an unhealthy coping mechanism. Also, this is getting very twisted by western media. First it's only online gaming, and second, you can get around it with a VPN so it's really up to parents to enforce!!

  • @robertcox14
    @robertcox14 3 роки тому +2

    Considering all the iterations of "misinformation" what and when is there ANYTHING to "believe"???????

    • @adamiskandar5107
      @adamiskandar5107 3 роки тому +1

      Maybe just looking at the results would help? You should even consider looking into a specific area like 'social mobility' and investigate thoroughly to confirm if the 'results' bear out.

  • @nicolasbollinilima
    @nicolasbollinilima 2 роки тому

    if you say your podcast is a look at "capitalism trought marxist lens" i think you could change the title for something like "Overcoming-capitalism chronicles" kkkk is my humble sugestion since, for what is undertand and was tought, the goal of communism for marx is to surpass capitalist social formations and resolve their intrincic contradiction. And for that we need to create new social formations by constructing a new political-economy trought intitucional and political arrangments. The key of china development is their political-economic sistem, by having a well organized communist party china is experimenting, implementing and ofen reforming their institucional and economic arrangments, allowing for the development of the productive forces at te same time that production relation are improved (salary in china cosistantly grows above the productivitt of work growth). By having REASON in power the comunist party of china is conducting the process of overcoming capitalim and in the process a new social-economic formation is being created.

  • @robertcox14
    @robertcox14 3 роки тому +2

    You know very well, David that the very worst predictions are on economics - Fed tapering in November??? Ha ha ha Duh!

  • @alloomis1635
    @alloomis1635 3 роки тому +2

    give more presence to the long view: cpprc is here to stay, but economic management of the nation will be pragmatic, and if that involves a period of 'natural' development then it will happen. but it is not capitalism because no principle or lasting direction is assumed. it's simply, let's see what works for now, with one eye on national activity, one on international reaction.
    it may be that 'neoliberalism' was advertised merely to induce foreign investment, which resulted in a genuine 'great leap forward,' to challenging usa in economic power. that stage has passed, simply because usa realized that it was letting private investment in china cut the usa throat. marx had something to say, along these lines, and you can bet the very smart gents in the central committee were perfectly capable of executing this kind of economic kung fu.
    the main mistake of western academia is to lose sight of the essential hollowness of 'capitalism' as a driving mechanism of national economy. it is just a polite word for greed, and generates no plans or policies of lasting consequence.
    prc is being directed on a level far above any western nation. this will continue until the corruption of power overwhelms the rational management of the nation. cpprc is the new mandarinate, come to power through victory in civil war, as is the habit of history in china. at present they look like the premier society of mankind, and likely to stay there for a long time.

  • @burden9809
    @burden9809 3 роки тому

    I have been waiting,hoping, looking for someone to help me believe that I am not crazy for thinking these things. So good to hear David’s presentation.
    Thank you!

  • @Jeevanm71
    @Jeevanm71 3 роки тому +2

    Let’s see if Xi nationalizes evergrande. That will show dedication to “common prosperity”

  • @plastictouch6796
    @plastictouch6796 3 роки тому +2

    Wow, now I actually feel that I understand China.

  • @richardfinlayson1524
    @richardfinlayson1524 3 роки тому

    I'm an Aussie and our PM , Scotty ,from marketing, really wants the Chinese to buy our coal, a lot of us are dead against this, but he doesn't listen to us, either does Queensland. The Chinese are also mad at us for getting subs from the US, now there like,stop it or well nuke you, so , yeah, Scotty from marketing has got t he Chinese pretty pissed off, they aren't talking to us......pleas explain.

    • @richardfinlayson1524
      @richardfinlayson1524 3 роки тому

      Oh yeah...the French are mad at us about the subs too, well we were gonna get the subs from them but now we have done the dirty on them, and run off with the US and the UK behind their backs. Most of the Pacific is annoyed with us too, as they are going underwater and want us to stop selling the coal to China ,who aren't buying it ,and are threatening to nuke us,

    • @crowrequiem3934
      @crowrequiem3934 3 роки тому

      Australia is torn between security reliance on the US and economic dependence on CN, and it can't warm up to one without offending the other.
      any country would put greater emphasis on security, so Australia natrually chose to side with the US, especially when the US foreign policy is basically "you are either with us or against us".
      the problem is that Australia gov. decided to do it far too overtly, well if you charge ahead first in line you bear the blunt of the retaliation. now the US gets some of Australia's orders and Australia gets most of the blame.

  • @jhproductions2307
    @jhproductions2307 3 роки тому +5

    I wonder if a Universal Basic Income would be the final answer to income inequality

    • @misanthropyunhinged
      @misanthropyunhinged 3 роки тому +5

      no

    • @advandepol7537
      @advandepol7537 3 роки тому +2

      Prof. Wolff has addressed this in one of his videos. I believe the crux was this, that a universal basic income does not much to change the capitalist system, but is rather a sop.

    • @spadeysay6846
      @spadeysay6846 3 роки тому

      It never will. Once a basic income of RMB 40.00 per month is enough to get by for an individual. Now even 10X that amount would be inadequate. Inflation is the biggest obstacle to that idea.

    • @jhproductions2307
      @jhproductions2307 3 роки тому +2

      @@advandepol7537 Perhaps in addition to a Universal Basic Income is other programs that can coordinate with it.

    • @jhproductions2307
      @jhproductions2307 3 роки тому +1

      @@spadeysay6846 It doesn't necessarily have to inflate. As long as the country continues to produce and grow inflation doesn't really come into the picture.

  • @liegesaboya8265
    @liegesaboya8265 3 роки тому

    China could give an extraordinary example on how to deal with climate change , by stopping buying soy , maize , sugar , meat , timber and all sort of commodities from Brasil . This measure would as well put an immediate end to NATO sponsored Bolsonaro regime .

  • @Spiritfba
    @Spiritfba 3 роки тому

    I wish our government officials would realize the powder keg we’re sitting on (United States).

  • @sucrose11
    @sucrose11 3 роки тому +1

    Everyone should read the book From Victory to Defeat China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal

  • @1875blahblahblah
    @1875blahblahblah 3 роки тому

    Do you like Maurice Meisner?

  • @TheAmericanAmerican
    @TheAmericanAmerican 2 роки тому

    9 months later and it looks like Xinnie the Pooh is going to side with Putler... sooo shocking

  • @MrRealAmericanvalues
    @MrRealAmericanvalues 3 роки тому

    Professor David "Dog shit Microphone" Harvey.

  • @elliottbetancourt6914
    @elliottbetancourt6914 3 роки тому +3

    First.

  • @oriondrums2
    @oriondrums2 3 роки тому

    how is this any different from the new deal - broad measures that transformed capitalist society with pressure from below, but fundamentally reforms grounded in the long term preservation of the capitalist system?
    this isn’t a chinese turn to socialism, this is rational thinking on behalf of the CCP trying to manage the powder keg of class struggle. they don’t want the working class to win, so to stave off the desire for system change, they make substantive concessions. that does not put them on the side of the working class, on the contrary, it demonstrates their alliance with the capitalist class, albeit with the unique dialectical thinking of a historically marxist party

    • @mokondoenak3706
      @mokondoenak3706 3 роки тому

      I think you should clean your Glasses. Clean your brain as well from all those dirty imperial capitalistic brainwashing.

  • @meegz149
    @meegz149 3 роки тому

    They should be doing something about their construction industry. Not just Evergrande. Look up videos of tofu dreg projects. Rapid expansion and low profit margins have lead to a lot of horribly built buildings.

  • @zoomzoom3950
    @zoomzoom3950 3 роки тому +1

    Idiocracy At Work.
    I ❤️ Capitalism.

    • @m.rebman7221
      @m.rebman7221 3 роки тому

      Truly, love is blind, n’est-ce pas? 😀

    • @zoomzoom3950
      @zoomzoom3950 3 роки тому

      @@m.rebman7221 says the follower of marxist failure

    • @m.rebman7221
      @m.rebman7221 3 роки тому +1

      @@zoomzoom3950 Not necessarily. I could just be an agent provocateur. But your response is exactly what I was seeking to show the futility of responding, even when you left yourself open to that last zinger. Also, in my parting, nay, Parthian, shot, you should understand, if you are capable of critical thinking at all, and I hope you are, that many people just want to see what a Marxist has to say. Listening to something need not make you that something. I might, myself, be classified as what the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa called an “anarchist banker” - a realist who reads the times and does not fall victim to ideology as, for example, you may have done. My comments are simply self-indulgence on my part, but I reserve the right to diversion along with the rest of you though trolling seems a waste of time, frankly. 🥸

  • @yperboreus
    @yperboreus 3 роки тому +5

    What do you think about China’s treatment of Uyghurs?

    • @markchiu1716
      @markchiu1716 3 роки тому +38

      Don’t believe those fake news. Uyghur Chinese enjoy their lives.

    • @MarcoPolo-hn8or
      @MarcoPolo-hn8or 3 роки тому +31

      All western propaganda. I was there, you should go visit🍻

    • @jeffou4166
      @jeffou4166 3 роки тому +22

      @Customer Relations do you really believe that propaganda? That's a big fat lie

    • @slorter10
      @slorter10 3 роки тому +20

      Stop reading collective west propaganda that would help!

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 3 роки тому +1

      @@markchiu1716 Here is the Chinese report ua-cam.com/video/u4cYE6E27_g/v-deo.html