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China's Mafia Capitalism - The Marxist Challenge
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China's Mafia Capitalism - The Marxist Challenge

This is a reading of the third of my articles having attended Marxism Conference 2023 Does China show that Marxist revolution leads to the victory of capitalism and the defeat of the proletariat?

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China’s Mafia Capitalism – The Marxist Challenge

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April 30, 2023
China’s Mafia Capitalism – The Marxist Challenge

Here’s a challenge for Marxist purists. It can be assessed that the ‘success’ of the Chinese Communist Party is in fact a victory for capitalism. This proposition is surely counter-intuitive. But so too, much of what Australian Marxists say is counter-intuitive. They say that there has only ever been one successful proletarian revolution—namely, the Russian revolution of 1917. Further, they say that China under the Chinese Communist Party is capitalist. These were two consistent themes at the three day

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