On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
> If you're saying that the Chinese government is acting like an
> effective developmentalist state along largely capitalist lines, I'd
> agree with you. But China is one of the few places in the world that
> could pursue noncapitalist developmental strategies - not that that's
> what the regime wants to do, of course.
Could you give examples of effective noncapitalist developmental strategies? Do you mean erecting high tariff walls and focusing on servicing its internal market a la the US of the 19th century -- but in a non-capitalist way?
Michael
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