[Marxism] Chinese Auto Production

[S. Artesian]

What is this myth of "China's" auto production?  Is there one Chinese auto 
producing company?  No there isn't.  There are 80, with  6 [I think] of the 
10 largest being foreign, multinational companies.

This is just like saying China is the largest cell phone producer in the 
world; China is the largest toy producer in the world; China is the largest 
textile producer in the world.  It means, in this world, very little.  Who 
owns the revenue streams means more.

What does mean something is:  what are the social relations of production 
augmented, quickened by auto production in China?  How do those social 
relations of production fit, or not fit, with the condition of Chinese 
agriculture?  What are the prospects for the disequilibrium already present 
in the Chinese economy given the overall world economic condition?

So again what are the prospects for China given its internal economic 
organization, its relations between city and countryside, and the global 
predicament of capital?  That was the original issue of the original post.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nada" <dwaltersMIA at gmail.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:49 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Chinese Auto Production


> So...the facts. Chinese auto production exceeded 10 million vehicles
> last year. The Chinese car market was half that. So, there are two
> different issues:
>
> 1. Overall forces of production in terms of auto production and
> 2. Chinese *internal* market.
>
> The Chinese internal market is shy of 6 million vehicles. Chinese
> *production* makes it the LARGEST automobile producer in the world,
> beating the US.
>
> There are also important, very important differences beyond statistical
> comparison.
>
> Chinese auto production, both *foreign  and domestic* are generally
> vertically integrated industries, unlike the US where most of the actual
> car is produced in other countries, including and especially, China.
> Thus, even if both countries produced the exact same number of cars, the
> Chinese would far outpace the US in overall production because every
> transmission, engine, spark plug and seat covering is made in China. In
> the US? Not so much.
>
> US auto "consumption" is flat and declining. China's, even now, is still
> rising.
>
> David
>
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