[Marxism] The land issue in China

[Larry Damms]

Husunzi wrote:
   
  A friend mentioned that someone had posted the FT report below on the
  recent land privatization announcements in China, so I thought some
  readers might be interested in my comments on this report. Anderlini
  makes some factual errors (about what China's constitution says about
  land ownership, for example), and, since this report continues a
  long-standing trend of journalistic arguments for privatization with
  clear ties to US think-tanks, I wonder if these errors are due to
  simply repeating what other reports have said, or if he's consciously
  misrepresenting things for political reasons.
   
  The China Study Group is working on a new web-journal called China
  Left Review, and its first issue will deal with the question of rural
  land privatization and the Chinese party-state's recent promotion of
  experimentation in de facto privatization. It should come out on the
  CSG website in a few weeks.

My comments on the FT report are here - looking forward to your suggestions:
  http://www.chinastudygroup.net/index.php?action=blog2&type=view&id=53
   
  LD writes:
   
  Thanks for all the hard and intelligent work you put into this. When I stumbled across the FT
  piece, I was apopleptic -- not to put too fine a point on it!!! -- but lacked the time, energy,
  and knowledge to script an appropriate critique, and you have done so thoroughly and
  brilliantly. It is a great relief to see this. The gist of the issue is that the FT, in solidarity if not
  cahoots with the usual suspects inside and outside the PRC, has put forward the property
  rights/self-regulating market package as a solution to the PRC's "agrarian problem" and "democracy deficit," and more insidiously implied that this dovetails with the incipient
  desires and aims of China's rural masses... a complete and concoted fabrication. You
  discursively and materially bust apart the hoax so nicely... thanks!!!
   
  PS While I may not entirely concur with the author's "state capitalist" take on things,
  Marxmail's denizens of matters Chinese, especially the cynical/gullible CCP tail-ending
  crowd, should take a close and serious look at Husunzi's meticulous deconstruction (if
  I may use such an airy fairy term) of the issue... 

       
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