Wuhan is known colloquially as one of the “four furnaces” (四大火炉) of China for its oppressively hot humid summer, shared with Chongqing, Nanjing and alternately Nanchang or Changsha, all bustling cities with long histories along or near the Yangtze river valley. Of the four, Wuhan, however, is also sprinkled with ...
It is easy to see today that in the course of implementing neo-liberal strategies, the state is being increasingly restricted in its function as the guarantor of social peace and compromise between the classes, while the various modes of operation of the social police are being intensified step by step. ...
china, Governance, imperialism, state, us-imperialism, world market
The Hong Kong government is so far mainly using repressive measures against the mass movement, but, recently, state media in China have started pushing for a change in the city’s housing policy – possibly a first sign for economic concessions in reaction to the pressure ‘from below.’
The Hong Kong ...
The fact that struggles for reproductive conditions or circulation struggles are increasing again worldwide at the moment is no coincidence. In France in particular, they are increasing in intensity from week to week with the Yellow West. The shifts are easy to understand there, the radicalism of the Riots, the ...
capital, china, finance, imperialism, World Economy, world market
Am Ende des Buchs kommt Malm auf die Emissions-Explosion nach dem Jahr 2000 zu sprechen, die von einem einzigen Land ausging, nämlich der VR China. Zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2006 war China für 55% der globalen Emission von CO2 verantwortlich. Im Jahr 2002 wurde China der größte Förderer von ...
china, CO2 emission, fossile Energie, Globalisierung, Klimawandel
Through a discussion of Nike’s Flyknit this essay deal with recent struggles and socioeconomic/technological trends in China, their relation to changing fashions in the West and possible forms of resistance that may emerge in global supply chains..
Note: Much of the material on China below is drawn from the important ...
capital, china, class struggle, marxism, Nike, sabotage, supply chain
Arbeiter*innen der Shenzener Schweißgerätefabrik Jasic wehren sich gegen Gängelung und wollen eine Gewerkschaft gründen. Als der Staat zurückschlägt, entwickelt sich eine übergreifende Solidaritätsbewegung in China und darüber hinaus.
„Eine Gewerkschaft zu gründen ist kein Verbrechen. Unterstützt die Jasic-Arbeiter*innen von Shenzen“, ruft Shen Mengyu mit lauter Stimme. Um sie stehen Polizist*innen. ...
The main thesis of this book is that contemporary globalization is bringing about a type of imperialism that differs fundamentally from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The most significant difference is that the great capitalist firms, by becoming multinationals, have broken out of the confines within which they ...
capital, china, EU, finance, global market, Globalization, imperialism, marxism, us-imperialism
Vortrag, gehalten auf einer Veranstaltung mit Micha Hintz
Es gibt zwar wichtige Parallelen zwischen dem nationalen Markt und dem Weltmarkt, aber jener ist nicht einfach eine Subkategorie des letzteren. Eine genauere Analyse des Weltmarktes macht evident, dass er mehr ist als nur die Aggregation der Staaten und Unternehmen, nämlich eine ...
china, Imperialismus, Kapitalexport, Leitwährung Dollar, Super-Exploitation, Weltmarkt
Reclusion
When the nomadic armies swept down from the north to conquer the splintering Western Jin dynasty, the upper classes fled across the Yellow River into the southern hinterland of their collapsing empire. In the South, they re-established the imperial court at Jiankang (within present-day Nanjing), decreeing the ascent of ...
capital, capitalism, china, development, empire, imperialism, marxism
Abstract: Can China lead the fight against climate change? If not, why not? Richard Smith, drawing on his forthcoming book China’s Engine of Ecological Apocalypse (Verso, 2018) argues that the built-in drivers and barriers of China’s hybrid bureaucratic- collectivist capitalism severely limit President Xi Jinping’s options, rendering his ambitions impossible
capitalism, china, consumerism, ecology, economic growth, global warming, marxism, Sustainability
The following is a preview article from the forthcoming first issue of the Chuang journal.
Denim and its Discontents
The story is now familiar: One morning in the spring of 2011, a migrant street vendor is harassed and beaten by police. That evening, rumors fly over the internet that the ...
