tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post825448107179629462..comments2023-10-24T11:03:41.388-05:00Comments on ladypoverty: Chinese land reform from aboveJ.R. Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076895859826581960noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-11499969269272319522010-01-08T13:21:01.811-05:002010-01-08T13:21:01.811-05:00Thank you, J. R. That's much my view, too. T...Thank you, J. R. That's much my view, too. The salient point for Western observers has never been the human rights or the ideology, but the strategy. Now China and the US are friends--to the extent that states can ever have human features--and that's how it's going to be marketed.<br /><br />And that's a great review, Jenny. "The Untold Story" wore its agenda on its sleeve. Mao has to be put into context, even as we might affirm his being a total bastard. By our own metrics, I can't damn them, however. They would only war to control their destiny as we warred to control ours. Their scales of benefit are hierarchical, just like every economy in the world that ever industrialized. But, like us, they have their triumphs. They disland and massacre and intimidate, but they did get rid of footbinding. So yay?Cüneythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839492265797382364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-78862346721279541682010-01-07T19:35:10.632-05:002010-01-07T19:35:10.632-05:00Communist China was never really about rightful re...Communist China was never really about rightful reform in the first place: http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=185&issue=110Jennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-43977829897782860752010-01-07T14:57:53.631-05:002010-01-07T14:57:53.631-05:00You're right: the only thing new about it is t...You're right: the only thing new about it is that China is now a "success" story.JRBhttp://ladypoverty.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461044.post-50251783629215892602010-01-07T11:49:13.683-05:002010-01-07T11:49:13.683-05:00Is this any surprise after the Cultural Revolution...Is this any surprise after the Cultural Revolution, though? That was also old Maoist hands playing puppetmasters to pent-up youth energy. Now the vigor is in capitalists and "reformists," but it's still the state and the military's that cashing in. There has long been a regressive impulse in Chinese nationalist authoritarian socialism, from the xenophobia to anti-homosexual tendencies to the revanchism... They have a different starting point, but they've landed in much the same territory as many Western states I know.Cüneythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839492265797382364noreply@blogger.com