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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-27Posted by Joel Martinsen, December 27, 2007 5:15 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). China's capitalist counter-revolution: At the Socialist Party Australia website, Vincent Kolo asks, "In China, which class is oppressor and which are oppressed?": This is gangster capitalism, as brutal and lawless as that in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union. The top echelons of the Chinese state, including the central government in Beijing, are now fully integrated into the global capitalist system - through the open door policy that president Hu Jintao describes as the 'cornerstone' of China's economic development. As a result, China has been turned upside down, from one of the most equal societies to one of the most unequal - with a wealth gap greater than in the US, India and Russia. This 'fully capitalist' programme is central to any discussion on the class character of the CCP regime and state. See also: Recognition of Private Property in China, Bárbara Areal's article for elmilitante.org last May.
According to the State Environmental Protection Administration, the brown haze that descended on our fair city hit a whopping 421 on the Air Pollution Index today. To put that in perspective, on a good day it hovers between 50-150. On a bad day, we're looking at 200 or so. Today was far worse than the past two days (280 and 269), and beats out the previous high for the year, 5 January, by 100 points (data from Beijing Air blog). See also: What are we breathing? from the Civic China blog.
Top-flight English matches were previously available for free on television and had a potential audience of 30 million.
Stricken by drought, abuse by industry, and neglect by local government, the once-majestic Xiang River in Hunan province has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. Since November, its water level has dropped to a record low. |
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Carl Crow's The Long Road Back to China: In 1939 Carl Crow - an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese - travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine - 'the most interesting assignment I have ever been given'.
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Comments on Danwei Picks: 2007-12-27
Oh, the irony of the Australian socialists using technology developed by evil capitalists to spread their revulsion at what China's "Communists" (their emphasis) has become.
I couldn't finish the socialists' rant. A tired lament for the grand old days when nothing was created (save for East Germany's stellar cardboard vehicle, the Trabant, made hip by arch-capitalists, U2) no one worked hard, and the food queues led for city blocks. Keep dreaming, comrades.