CB: Wouldn't cadre be less confused etc if the old Leninist attitude of concrete analysis of concrete situation were taken, allowing for the necessity of rapid shifts in response to rapid shifts in the real political and economic situation in the village, city, province , country and world ? You know the practical critical dialectic can change in a flash and change back. I'd think that would be as cadre-like as loyalty and glue. Continuity and discontinuity both. _________
[mbs] Some would but many would not. Your model demands a lot of cadres, particularly if it is major postures that are changed.
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CB: The great mass of party cadre are still resistant to China aiming to be capitalist and no longer aiming to be partially , temporarily capitalist on a longer road to socialism ?
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[mbs] I can't speak w/any authority on what CCP cadre think. It seems obvious that there is likely to be a lot of confusion because of the apparent ambiguity of current situation. Something like an identity crisis; are we socialist or not?
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CB: Was is 100% socialist before ? Was it mixed socialist and "peoples/communal peasant" ? How much was government owned before ?
[mbs] Moving from capitalist to an increasing amount of socialism is plausible as a socialist path. Ramping up to socialism from capitalism, then deciding that economic liberalism is desirable, is confusing as a path to socialism. To me, at least. Not that I'm against it. If there was more sign of increasing openness, as in South Korea, and fewer threats to Taiwan, I'd feel much better about the PRC.
People talk about solidarity. Imagine the PRC as a champion of labor standards (ones it could live with, obviously, but which reflected a kind of self-discipline to raise them continuously). Imagine the pickle that would create for MNC's. It's the PRC that is abstaining from internationalism; not the IBT.
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