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Red Cat, White Cat: China and the Contradictions of "Market Socialism" | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Weil
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0853459681
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.951009049
EAN: 9780853459682
ASIN: 0853459681
Publication Date: January 1, 1996
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"Robert Weil has written a brilliant, powerfully argued book that cuts through the hogwash pouring from the West and from China about the 'miracle' of the Deng reforms. Weil shows how Deng's use of 'capitalism to build socialism' has resulted in the use of 'socialism to build capitalism.' This is powerful stuff, must-reading for all those who care about the future of humanity."
--William Hinton
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Green cats dominate red cats February 24, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Robert Weil's book is a welcome antidote to the usual Western accounts of China's current attempt to integrate w/ the globalized economy. In the author's view, Deng Xiaoping's "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white" line is a surrender of socialist values by the Chinese ruling elite to the powerful capitalist gendarme. Mr. Weil, who has first hand experience in teaching China's new but confused youths, weaves a persuasive mural in which foreign investments and multinationalcorporate hegemony are increasingly tearing away the traditional socialist fabric of job security, guranteed education & health care, and relative income equality for the masses of workers. Already the widening gap between rich & poor in China, plus a myriad of old vices like drug abuse and prostitution, is rivaling the Guomindang days of the '30s & '40s. Yet the Chinese leaders are calling this structural reform, "socialism with Chinese characteristics"! Unfortunately, Mr. Weil's account ends with a wishful proclamation that the Chinese working class will somehow find a new revolutionary way forward to reclaim a socialism under new conditions. This may still happen, but the author doesn't provide any convincing potential scenarios. Indeed, the challenge facing the working class in the coming "Pacific century" is, precisely, "How will we confront the seemingly invincible capitalist Goliath and find a true socialist economic altern ative to the global bourgeois penitentiary?"
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