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[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 week ago (7 children)

their analysis focuses on the results of China’s successful development while overlooking the political economy that made it possible: an authoritarian state based on unequal citizenship for migrants and the systematic extraction of surplus value created by workers.

lol

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

and the systematic extraction of surplus value created by workers.

Someone should create a word for that.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

i am become the joker

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Amazing. Tagline material.

In bad country they treat migrants worse and take the surplus value of work projection

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

authoritarian state

Meaningless word salad, every state is “authoritarian” by nature and if it were not, it would immediately cease to exist. Is the author suggesting that there is currently a state in the world that does not enforce its authority?

unequal citizenship for migrants^1234^

it-is-known

lmao what? Does the author think any given immigrant can just up and get citizenship? Have they done literally any amount of research at all into how virtually impossible it is for a foreigner to get Chinese citizenship? Does the author think Chinese factories are staffed mostly by foreign workers?

systematic extraction of surplus value created by workers.

I thought Marx was a dumb-dumb who didn’t know anything and was wrong about that because muh human nature. I guess he was right after all, good thing this only happens in China

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I'm assuming by "immigrants" they're referring to Chinese people who moved into big cities, especially the rich ones on the coast like Shanghai and Shenzhen.

There’s the whole deal with how because they're still registered with the place they came from (the hukou system was meant to encourage rural Chinese to stay and grow the economy there), they can't access certain services, so Western talks about "second-class citizens" and the like.

[–] EveningCicada@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

extraction of surplus value created by workers

no way

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

but enough about amerikkka,

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Suddenly everyone is a Marxist