StockholmSyndrome
21st October 2010, 16:16
I found most of this article agreeable. However, the author's critique of bourgeois multi-party democratic elections is coming from the perspective of someone who believe's the bureaucratic Stalinist-Maoist model of single party elections is somehow more representative of the people, simply because they have nominal "economic rights", when in reality the bureaucratic elite has de facto ownership.
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14625&news_iv_ctrl=1261
I think people need to not be so unflinchingly apologetic on behalf of China. The author of this article doesn't seem to realize that that a Marxist critique of bourgeois democracy must also posit a true worker's democracy with worker's control as the only alternative. I do not mean to defend Liu's Nobel prize, and I think the author is right to condemn it. I just think this article could have been a bit more critical of China.
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14625&news_iv_ctrl=1261
I think people need to not be so unflinchingly apologetic on behalf of China. The author of this article doesn't seem to realize that that a Marxist critique of bourgeois democracy must also posit a true worker's democracy with worker's control as the only alternative. I do not mean to defend Liu's Nobel prize, and I think the author is right to condemn it. I just think this article could have been a bit more critical of China.