> I dunno...but if you look at Mao's regime as a brutal expropriation
> of small holders from their land resulting in the creation of an
> industrial
> proletariat, it seems like a straightforward case of primitive
> accumulation,
> culminating in capitalist production in a previously agricultural
> nation.
I think that the whole Maoist thing was just that, primitive accumulation, which pretty much inevitably led to a capitalist development, just as it did in Europe. What else would it have led to? Maoist China was in no position to develop in a socialist direction, as far as I can see. (But of course the champions of Mao's thought will have lots of arguments to prove me wrong :-) ).
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet; Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I. -- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)